스토리텔링 연구의 성과와 과제

Abstract

This paper reviews achievements in studies on storytelling, which has recently attracted attention from the academic world, by dividing it into three fields, digital storytelling, storytelling in the real world spaces, and cultural industry relatedness, and explores directions that research in storytelling should take in future. This study reviews the achievements in studies on cyber literature with focus on the significance of the studies, which has a long history of research among other fields of digital storytelling and has seen a considerable amount of achievements, the recently accumulated achievements in studies on digital game narratives in each period, and the achievements in studies on storytelling in digital spaces in each subfield including internet newspapers, internet advertisements, web museums, digital edutainment etc. As for storytelling in the real world spaces, this study summarizes the achievements in storytelling for museums and art halls, and for festivals and theme parks. And, as for the achievements related to the cultural industry, work on aspects of variations in contents in the course of storytelling, on values of storytelling as a field of the cultural industry, and on plans for the cultivation of storytelling experts. Based on the reviews of the achievements, this paper examines some directions that studies on storytelling should pursue. This paper proposes as concrete methods, adjustment of storytelling research for its continuous and practical development, reflections on storytelling studies that have been carried out with focus on trends, establishment of theoretical frameworks in which storytelling activities and their outcomes are analyzed, exploration of methods for the humanities oriented values of storytelling studies, bringing attention from theoretical work on storytelling to its practical production, construction of database for sharing actual experiences in storytelling.