Digital storytelling in the context of crisis com-munication: post – crisis campaigns Cover Image

Дигитален разказ в контекста на кризисната комуникация: кампании в посткризисен период
Digital storytelling in the context of crisis com-munication: post – crisis campaigns

Author(s): Mariya Nikolova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Media studies, Communication studies, Theory of Communication
Published by: ЮГОЗАПАДЕН УНИВЕРСИТЕТ »НЕОФИТ РИЛСКИ«
Keywords: digital narrative; post-crisis communication; storytelling; social media; online reputation.

Summary/Abstract: The paper attempts to clarify the concepts of digital narrative and digital storytelling in the context of crisis communication. It is highlighted that the aim in the post-crisis campaigns is to be restored the organizational reputation and the loyalty of the targeted communities. The author attempts to analyze post-crisis campaigns in three different fields - institutional, corporate, and non-government that involving forms of digital narrative. Digital storytelling has a strong and powerful effect on communicating NGO causes. In two out of three cases (NGOs and the corporate sector) communication professionals used video storytelling, while in the institutional sector, formats such as story map and location-based storytelling are used.

  • Issue Year: 10/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 69-87
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Bulgarian