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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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Narrative Initiative
594 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY 11238, USANarrative Initiative is a training and networking resource for leaders and organizations dedicated to building fairer, more inclusive societies.
Investigate how weather and climate change are impacting our communities and environment.
Narrative Initiative is a training and networking resource for leaders and organizations dedicated to building fairer, more inclusive societies.
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BerlinA Campaign Against Hate and Prejudice
Norman Lear Center
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA, USAStudying & 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.
Count the Nation
Los Angeles, CAThe USC Annenberg Innovation Lab and Wise Entertainment have assembled a powerful coalition of experts in media, communications, data, technology and journalism to ensure everyone knows how much census participation benefits their community.
Beautiful Rising
New York, NYA toolkit of social movement resources by and for global changemakers
The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a data-visualization, data analysis, and storytelling collective documenting dispossession and resistance upon gentrifying landscapes.
Human.nyc
Civic Hall, West 22nd Street, New York, NY, USAOur 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.
Google Trends
Mountain View, CA, USAExplore what the world is searching
Avalanche Strategy
Washington, DCAvalanche Strategy produces audience insights with the depth of a focus group and the accuracy of polling.
ZenCity
Tel Aviv, IsraelHear from all of your residents and better connect to your community's heartbeat with Zencity, a cross-channel platform that takes civic engagement to the next level
Civic Studios
Mumbai, Maharashtra, IndiaThe 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.
Parli-N-Grams
Parliament Square, London, UKChart the frequency of words and phrases in UK Parliament debates
Collideoscope
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Tell us about your collisions and near-misses, so we can build the evidence base for improvements, together
PoliMonitor
TechHub London, Clere Street, London, UKA political data and intelligence start-up helping to connect the public and politicians.
Brandwatch Consumer Research
48 West 21st Street, New York, NY 10010, USAGet consumer fit by accessing data from 100 million sources and over 1.3 trillion individual posts.
LittleSis is a free database of who-knows-who at the heights of business and government.
Factmata
114 Whitechapel High St. London E1 7PTEmpowering everyone with a better understanding of content.
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