Spinning a bit off a comment by Paul Furiga in the recent Q&A with him 
and his partner, John Durante, I’m thinking that as technical capabilities become every more mind-boggling and jaw-dropping, we need to beware of labeling every technologically stunning multimedia presentation as storytelling.
Last week, a Twitterer sang the storytelling praises of this presentation from Waterlife about dwindling water resources and the fact that water is now polluted with pharmaceutical toxins.
I will grant that this is beautifully done presentation. But I don’t see it as much beyond a very technically advanced PowerPoint presentation with facts and figures.
I don’t see it as storytelling. Do you?
The Tweeter referred to the presentation as “Database Storytelling,” which was a new one on me. I Googled the term, looked it up on Wikipedia, and asked the Tweeter for a definition but could not learn what “database storytelling” is. Do you know what database storytelling is? If so, please share.
I was similarly flummoxed by this piece, also touted in the Twitterverse as storytelling. At first I saw it as a poem, but later I realized it’s apparently some sort of game, an “unidentified game object.” I couldn’t get too far into it because the music drove me insane (I suppose I could have turned off the sound). OK, I can sort of see the game aspect, but can someone explain the storytelling to me?