How digital storytelling will ‘revolutionize’ the narrative experience.

Digital story telling has the potential to change the way we tell stories. It effortlessly combines what is heard, seen, and felt to really create a fuller narrative. The story becomes more like a movie through utilizing the senses. Within this digital age, it is a great way to combine the traditional ways of story telling with a modern twist. Stories are meant to be told, and digital story telling provides the author with limitless options when deciding how to tell the story. It really allows the viewer to get a true glimpse of the narrator and it allows the author to spread their message in a new, dynamic way. As their reading pointed out, it provides the narrator with a way to creatively tell "their story" and their personal insight in a very direct, simple way. It still encompasses the traditional methods of story telling but it is not done in such a way that it is more accessible. The narrative experience will now become revolutionized and modernized so that the story telling process becomes an even grander journey.

America's Youth and the Future

        I agree with the points Todd Buchholz made in his article “The Go-Nowhere Generation”. The American youth have become lazy in their efforts to try and improve not only their lives but their future as well. Perhaps the problem lies in their desire to have success handed to them, rather than seeking it out. Maybe the problem is that home life has become too perfectly comfortable. Everything they need is right there; they don’t have to work for it. They were raised in a time when futures went from limitless to very limited. As a college student, I do worry about not finding a good job in this economy. Before attending college almost guaranteed you a stable job but now students go in debt in the hopes that they might earn a good job. Nothing can be expected anymore and it is this uncertainty that scares many from venturing away from the comfort of their homes. There is no war to threaten us, there is not a fear of persecution to motivate us, there is no instability within our own lives which would act as reason enough to make any drastic change. It seems as if Americans just want to coast in the same direct through life without trying to change the path they are on. In order for the future to change, as a nation we need to want to excel and improve. We cannot accept the status quo. We define the future and currently it seems like we just don’t want to take responsibility for it.