Numbers alone don’t relay the importance of people seeing their own experiences and lives mirrored in popular culture.
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How much you become engaged with a story is known as narrative transportation. And the more a story transports you, the more likely you are persuaded to adopt the beliefs espoused within it.
Dystopian fiction is popular, but presenting positive visions of the future in popular culture could help people embrace solutions.
Later animations have told the tale of Peter Rabbit and friends, but none have reflected the power of the original.
A Canada-Iran collaboration uses performance art, storytelling and new media to confront the troubles of global migration and borders.
Long a repressed language, the Scots tongue is experiencing a cultural resurgence thanks to popular drama and storytelling.
We’ve never needed Oculus Rift to provide immersive experiences – they’ve been around for as long as we have.
Storytelling has endangered status in UK schools, partly due to a huge emphasis on ‘active learning’.
When patients, doctors and nurses have the opportunity to share their experiences of hospital intensive care, the resulting dialogue can be transformative.
Like many Indigenous groups around the world, the James Bay Cree of northern Québec have a disproportionately high rate of diabetes. They’re facing it down with a decidedly Indigenous solution.
Ritual feasting emerged around the time humans were beginning to farm. It came to play an important role in societal bonding, much as it does today.
A new study suggests skilled storytellers may have greater reproductive success than others.
Fairy tales can be brutal, violent, sexual and laden with taboo. But they are are excellent narratives with which to think through a range of human experiences: from disappointment, and fear to envy and grief.
Diet books aren’t just fluff. They offer a powerful insight into who Americans are – and how we wish the world could be.
Packed venues, rock star status. What makes some scientists so damned marketable?
Almost total journalistic shutdown is worsening the UK prison crisis.
Jerome Bruner, Kathy Sylva and Catherine Snow are names we are more familiar with than we think.
Robust scientific experiments are objective and separated from human influence. But the way we think about and connect with science can present beautiful stories.
People tell each other stories every day about the things they’ve seen and done. For many children with autism, this kind of personal narrative doesn’t come easily. Here’s how parents can help.
What do Nelson Mandela, Chairman Mao and Spanish politician Pablo Iglesias have in common with Donald Trump?
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Dean of Research (Creative), Adelaide University
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Professor of Persuasive Language and Storytelling, SKEMA Business School
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Professor of Sustainable Practice, University of Southampton
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Lecturer in Digital Media Production, University of Westminster
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Associate Professor, Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia
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Professor of Psychology, University of Otago
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Professor of Language and Literacy Education, Georgia State University
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Investigator, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Associate Professor in Arts and Sustainability, University of Portsmouth
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Lecturer in Environmental Geography, University of Stirling
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Professor of Creative Writing and Digital Media, Bath Spa University
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HHMI Professor of Biomedical Engineering and International Health, Boston University
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Professor in Public History, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Marketing and Media Research, University of Münster
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Senior Lecturer, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University