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Organizing multi-dimensional stories - 2023 12 11

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  My approach to storytelling is Incorporating narratology, multimodal theory, new media studies, interactive theory, Internet studies, social media studies, and statistics to produce and disseminate short, concise, blog posts that interweave visual imagery, research knowledge and quotidian anecdotes. This approach is designed to activate multiple points of engagement in the reader, to set up a reading experience that activates the reader's dialogic imagination, their unique interpretation and meaning making of the individual components in the blog post, but also the complex emergence of meaning through the juxtaposition of the different, unfolding parts of the story. Each day I am faced with an impossible complex of requirements, responses, and emerging outcomes. I am looking after my Mom. I am socially and professionally isolated. I am driven to make sense of my experience. I am required to show up every day, every hour, to attend to the needs of my frail elder Mom. I spend the m...