ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the how narrative and aesthetic design principles of audiovisual storytelling can be applied in online learning situations. Resources for expressing social distance and spatial aspects of the voice become available for "technological manipulation and aesthetic choice". As stated earlier, the purpose of the pilot study was to explore how narrative and aesthetic choices made in recording and producing vocal sound might contribute to the experience of presence, participation, and engagement in online learning situations. The results of the study suggest how aesthetic processes communicate in daily life, with the case of voice quality contributing aesthetic, as well as semiotic and narrative, meanings to online learning situations. As a consequence, they might be expected to accept, and maybe even prefer, a vocal sound expressing a sonic truth criterion leaning more towards a sensory than a naturalistic modality.
