digital storytelling
Screen-based tale-craft
Digital storytelling is the use of digital tools—video, audio, images, interactive media—to craft and share narratives.
The term encompasses everything from short personal videos to elaborate multimedia presentations.
What distinguishes it from traditional storytelling is the integration of technology in both creation and distribution: Her digital storytelling class taught students to combine family photos with voiceover narration.
- interactive fictionCommand-driven narrative software
- choose your own adventureReader-controlled branching narrative
- multimediaCombined content formats
- cybertextText requiring nontrivial effort
- e-literatureLiterature created for digital media
hypertext · visual metaphors · photo essay · education technology · screen time · augmented reality · user experience · personal memoirs · cultural preservation · virtual reality · museum exhibits · interactive media · web series · social media · graphic novels · video · first person narrative · podcast
digital storytellingoral storytelling
Transmitting tales aloud
oral tradition · campfire stories · handwritten manuscripts · theater · cave painting
digital storytellingoral tradition
Culture passed by speech
folk storytelling · storytelling circles · tribal storytelling · communal storytelling · tribal lore