W9 Reading Questions from Mizusa
Q1. The Cell & The City the VR immersive storytelling narrates how the pancreatic beta-cell functions to teach public the effects of drugs and treatments on it. How beneficial/ unbeneficial is this radical way of augmenting one’s knowledge? How different is the way of narrative of The Cell & The City from its conventional counterparts, such as informed orally by a health professional?
Q2. (Reflecting on Q1) If this type of storytelling educates people effectively, enhancing their awareness of a specific issue, what else can be well narrated? Can immersive storytelling contribute to making a better world in this era?
Q3. The more technology is involved in storytelling, such as the cinema projection with the VR headset, the more difficult the viewers own the medium of the story on their own. How will this tendency effect on consumer experiences with storytelling? Some contents are so easily accessed online, and some mediums, such as DVD, are available at many stores, but not the kit for immersive experiences. Does this diverse possibility for ownership give any incentives to those mediums in the different degrees?
Q4. The article states that the reason why destroying a book’s prose to the point of it being unreadable is to track whom it has belonged to at any given time by making a “mark”. Why is one’s prompt of making a mark needed to be destructive-removing a word, not productive-changing a storyline? Does Universe Explodes tell us how objects like a book change over time by owned by different people?