The 2003, the Geneva Declaration of the Global Forum of Indigenous Peoples and the Information Society stated that

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) should be used to support and encourage cultural diversity and to preserve and promote the language, distinct identities and traditional knowledge of Indigenous peoples, nations and tribes in a manner which [...]

A couple of recent pieces have examined the role of relationships and connections in storytelling.

In a scholarly piece called  Different Ways of Remembering: the Example of Storytelling, Mark Oppenneer writes:

The telling of a story not only suggests the physical presence of a storyteller and an audience, but the relationship that exists between [...]