Marty Keltz sends us the news about this interesting initiative, the The Virtual Worlds Story Project, that uses virtual worlds as a medium for interactive storytelling. They are partnering with the Karuna project to share the stories of those living with HIV/AIDS in Second Life. On October 1st, at 12pm PST, there will be a premiere of “Stories Without Borders: The life and times of Uncle D,” a film that documents this interactive storytelling approach.
As non-narrative based, open-ended environments, virtual worlds are interesting mediums for facilitating new kinds of collaborative narrative creation. You can see this in the many role-playing sims and groups you find in Second Life that allow the players to dynamically and socially create shared stories, history and myths in a multi-layered, persistent environment. It makes sense for nonprofits to use this phenomenon to engender public engagement with their issues and causes.
