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The Future of Writing - Microsoft Research

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Let's start with our first case study.<br />

[Slide 1]<br />

Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,<br />

1937<br />

Although Snow White is a classic fairy tale, it deals<br />

with adult and current issues for the Big Society,<br />

specifically, social inclusion for the homeless and<br />

disadvantaged.<br />

[Slide 2]<br />

Snow White is essentially a young person who has<br />

become homeless due to a dysfunctional family. She<br />

‘Happily finds Ever herself After lost in the in Big the Society’ forest, tired, hungry and<br />

scared after she narrowly escapes from her stepmother,<br />

‘Happily a vain Ever and After wicked in the Queen Big Society’ who has taken over<br />

is the a hyper-realistic kingdom after workshop the death training <strong>of</strong> her father.<br />

script that uses fictional case studies<br />

[Slide 3]<br />

to model and explore goals and<br />

objectives Homelessness identified is in an the important 2010 issue in our current<br />

Conservative society. At manifesto. any one Expanding time, some on fifty-six thousand<br />

the people misappropriation slip through and exploitation<br />

the net, ultimately being let<br />

<strong>of</strong> down fiction by in the management system. If training, we are the to meet the Big<br />

Society's intention <strong>of</strong> being big enough to include<br />

project questions whether it is possible<br />

even the most disadvantaged, it is vital that we are<br />

to innovative transpose ideas in how from we iconic address stories this issue. Snow White's<br />

and reciprocal films into real-world relationship applications, with the Seven Dwarfs<br />

and demonstrates the socio-political an interesting implications <strong>of</strong> approach.<br />

reworking fictional models to inform<br />

the<br />

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contemporary<br />

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grand narrative <strong>of</strong><br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Big Society’.<br />

Going back to the story, in the forest, Snow White<br />

discovers a tiny cottage, which she enters, and finding<br />

no one home and the house dusty and untidy, she<br />

decides to give it a good clean, hoping the residents<br />

may let her stay in return. When the Seven Dwarfs<br />

arrive home, they are astonished to discover the<br />

house clean and tidy. After finding Snow White lying<br />

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