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This thing was constructed on December 19, 2007, and it was categorized as literary, maps.
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The Center for Digital Storytelling created the StoryMapping project to provide a forum for the exploration of the connection between narrative and place as well as links to a set of tools for users wishing to develop text in relation to maps. As part of the group’s larger interest in using new media and technology to help individuals, communities, and businesses explore their identities through narrative, the StoryMapping resources help participants incorporate GoogleMap information into their works and share their research with others through Web 2.0, while a community forum provides a space for discussing issues related to place-based storytelling.
Some of the works that have emerged from StoryMapping use text and technology to explore the effects of social change. environmental issues, and the relationship between place and memory. The latter projects appear the most interesting, offering a new way of conducting oral history research and constructing personal memoirs. The example given on the site, the Vickery Memory Map, preserves the identity of a community absorbed by the expansion of Dallas by allowing a resident to tease out the connections between locations and individual memories.
. Historian Shae Davidson's research interests include public policy and the relationship between culture and civil society. His publications range from articles on industrial history to absurdist poetry.
