As I didn’t completely grasp the Shields reading, I went out into the sea of data in order to find someone who could show me the light.

I landed on Mia Campion-Curtis’ blog and came across her summary of Shield’s spiel.

In summary:

• Shields’ writings are a non-sequential collection linked by key ideas
• Shields sees traditional narrative perhaps becoming extinct as it is ‘tired’ and ‘purposeless’, which will be lost to forms of narrative such as mosaic and collage which are an ‘evolution’ of traditional narrative.
• Shields proposes that a traditional narrative could be re-arranged (through something like Korsakow) and then told in the form of an interactive documentary.