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Technology has always had a role in shaping how narratives are created, distributed, tracked and absorbed into society. Today, technology moves the words, pictures and meaning of narrative around the world in seconds. Technology helps us track the movement of narrative and research how narrative shifts behavior.
"Narrative Technology encompasses the tools, platforms, and infrastructure that can be used to assist and accelerate the shifting and/or maintenance of dominant narratives. This includes technologies that can baseline, listen to, test, and respond to media and online discourse at scale." - The Narrative Initiative
Suggested resources:
- Narrative Technology Case Studies, by Narrative Initiative
- Learn how 3 years of Big Listening (and testing) may change your campaigning, by Ted Fickes, MobLab
- Invest in Listening Infastructure, Sabrina Hersi Issa, The Engaged Journalism Lab
- Using “Big Listening” and “Distributed Campaigning,” Upwell Seeks a Sea-Change in Ocean Organizing, by Micah L. Sifry, TechPresident
- Tech Across Your Org: Sharing a Cause and Data Across Multiple Orgs, by Rachel Weidinger, NTEN Change
- Can Democrats Win Back the Internet in the Age of Trump?, by Peter Hamby, Vanity Fair
- Narrative Tech: Categories, needs and what’s next by Ted Fickes
- Why Your Nonprofit Should Be A Big Listener by Rachel Weidinger, featured by Beth Kanter
- Digital Listening: Insights from social media, a critical take on political campaigns’ use of these technologies, from a personal data perspective, by Tactical Tech’s Our Data, Ourselves project
- Shifting the conversation: How the sector is using narrative change to advance social change Books and chapters
- This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality, by Peter Pomerantsev
- pp 212-217 in The Big Disconnect, by Micah L. Sifry
- “Your campaign budget is the Internet —Rachel Weidinger” in Analytic Activism: Digital Listening and the New Political Strategy, by David Karpf
Training
- Storytelling and reach for civil society organizations by Fundación Multitudes
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Consumer Reports Share My Story
New York stateA platform for CR members to share their stories on a given topic, like medical bills
Modern administrative data—from 311 and 911 calls to building permit applications to Tweets—offer a detailed view of events and conditions across the city.
Opening in early 2012, The Social Media Listening Center at Clemson University is an interdisciplinary, cutting-edge laboratory that seeks to monitor, measure, and engage in social media conversations from across the web.
Narrative Change Lab
TorontoInspirit Foundation program "to shift the Canadian narrative landscape for equity-seeking groups through pop culture."
Votus is a communications platform that helps organizations build relationships with persuadable audiences through 1:1 interaction across multiple digital channels.
Video creation case studies
San FranciscoShort case studies and guides to using free tools to create campaign videos
Election Official Stories
United States of America 🇺🇸We share stories from election officials doing fantastic work.
A toolkit for communities to listen, tell stories, and imagine better futures together.
Mann Mela
India (Bhārat) 🇮🇳“Mann Mela” is a museum of young people’s mental health stories from India Through sharing people’s real experiences, we tackle common misconceptions about mental health and mental illness, break down stigma and discrimination and encourage help-seeking.
ActionSprout
ActionSprout, Commercial Street, Bellingham, WAActionSprout makes it easy to find curated content, schedule posts, manage Facebook ads, and create donations and petitions to grow your following!
Bringing underheard voices to the center of a stronger public dialogue
Homevida
House 2, Plot 622, Mercy Samuelson Estate, Karmo, AbujaThe Nigeria Integrity Film Awards (HomeVida) is a unique platform that provides incentives for young scriptwriters and filmmakers to promote integrity values using film while influencing the wider public.
The Narrative Observatory
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)With data infrastructure purpose-built to deliver audience-based insights, narrative and network analysis, and empirical validation of cultural strategy and content, we help strategists and creative practitioners identify story opportunities and challenges across a range of social issues.
Abre Alcaldías
Latin AmericaTrainings and storytelling for open government in Latin America
Mapping Makoko
Nigeria 🇳🇬A combined tech and journalistic effort to map the Makoko informal settlement
Beautiful Rising
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)A toolkit of social movement resources by and for global changemakers
RNW Media
RNW Media, Witte Kruislaan, Hilversum, NetherlandsRNW Media supports local media and impact organizations to master persuasive storytelling techniques and creative formats to create strong narratives on the world’s most pressing issues.
Memria
Civic Hall, West 22nd Street, New York, NYMEMRIA uses the power of voice to help our partners further their missions.
Narrative Initiative
594 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY 11238Narrative Initiative is a training and networking resource for leaders and organizations dedicated to building fairer, more inclusive societies.
Chart the frequency of words and phrases in UK Parliament debates
Terrastories
Pusugrunu, SurinameTerrastories is a geostorytelling application built to enable local communities to locate and map their own oral storytelling traditions about places of significant meaning or value to them.
PoliMonitor
TechHub London, Clere Street, London, UKA political data and intelligence start-up helping to connect the public and politicians.
Google Trends
Mountain View, CAExplore what the world is searching
Civic Studios
MumbaiThe production house focuses on creating content in the genre of Civic Entertainment, i.e. films, TV, digital content, radio content, etc. which can be used to encourage civic participation with public institutions, and thus strengthen democracy.
LittleSis is a free database of who-knows-who at the heights of business and government.
StoryCorps
80 Hanson Pl, Brooklyn, New York 11217To preserve and share humanity’s stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world
Factmata
114 Whitechapel High St. London E1 7PTEmpowering everyone with a better understanding of content.
Fora
68 Harrison Ave BostonHuman-Led + AI-Supported Listening
Fathom
Washington, DCFathom text analysis has transformed 25M+ open ended responses into actionable insights for leading agencies and brands.
Human.nyc
Civic Hall, West 22nd Street, New York, NYOur team spent two years listening to homeless New Yorkers. This website aims to summarize our findings and push forward sensible reforms that we developed alongside our homeless neighbors.
Citizengage
1110 Vermont Ave NW Washington D.C. 20005Discover how citizens and governments are coming together around the world and how you can join them.
Google Analytics
Mountain View, CAIt gives you the free tools you need to analyse data for your business in one place, so you can make smarter decisions.
Quid
1 California St San Francisco, California 94111, USOther analytic software can show you what is happening, but only Quid can unlock the context that explains why.
PeakMetrics
Los AngelesPeakMetrics tracks news and government action around the clock, so you save time and react faster.
The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a data-visualization, data analysis, and storytelling collective documenting dispossession and resistance upon gentrifying landscapes.
Protect Our Care
Austin, TXA campaign leveraging personal stories about Pre-Existing Conditions, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act to defend it from legislative attacks
Norman Lear Center
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, Watt Way, Los Angeles, CAStudying & Shaping the Impact of Entertainment & Media on Society
The Rules have developed a method and toolkit to help social movements bring about narrative and structural change. We call it Culture Hacking.
SoundCloud
BerlinDiscover, stream, and share a constantly expanding mix of music from emerging and major artists around the world.
Investigate how weather and climate change are impacting our communities and environment.
Brandwatch Consumer Research
48 West 21st Street, New York, NY 10010Get consumer fit by accessing data from 100 million sources and over 1.3 trillion individual posts.
Coworker.org is a platform for worker voice. Find out why employees of some of the world's largest companies are using Coworker.org to win change.
HuruMap
Kenya 🇰🇪HURUmap gives infomediaries like journalists and civic activists an easy ‘plug & play’ toolkit for finding and embedding interactive data visualisations into their storytelling. The project's underlying data is quality-checked, from reputable official sources including the government Census, PEPFAR and Uwezo.
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