digital storytelling
DIJ-ih-tul STOR-ee-tel-ing
ˈdɪdʒɪtəl ˈstɔːriˌtɛlɪŋListen
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the practice of combining digital technologies — including video, audio, photography, animation, interactive web design, and social media — with narrative craft to create and share stories in forms that exploit the specific expressive possibilities of digital media; digital storytelling encompasses both the formal creative practice associated with organisations like the Center for Digital Storytelling (now StoryCenter), which facilitates community members in making short personal narrative videos, and the broader landscape of narrative expression in digital environments including interactive fiction, documentary web series, data journalism narratives, and transmedia storytelling; in digital humanities pedagogy, digital storytelling projects ask students to engage with archival material, oral history, or historical research by translating their findings into narrative forms accessible to public audiences
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