Seattle Noir is yet another Twitter-based storytelling project. It’s microstorytelling, really, as each bit of story consists of a single Tweet.
Said Tweets combine noir fiction (plot and/or style) with life in Seattle, flagged by the hashtag #SeattleNoir. For example,
Or:
Twitter continues to be a lively ground for new digital storytelling. Soon we won’t call this “new” any more. I wrote about a few examples of this in chapter four of my 2011 book.
Noir has been a digital storytelling theme for a while. Small Town Noir did a fine job of combining local archival research with blogging. Alan Levine (of course) offers a neatly unsettling noir through Cowbird.
(thanks to Steven Kaye; cross-posted to New Digital Storytelling)
