Capturing and Sharing Through Digital Storytelling

Today, storytelling is primarily digital. You can tell your own story, or you can tell the stories of others. Technology allows stories to be told in many different forms. So what kind of digital storytelling do you participate in?

Although these seven components define the style of digital storytelling, everyone has different ways of how they think a story should be told. The media offers many options for people to express themselves, but these seven components are what digital stories are known for.

The taxonomy, or “classification,” of media practices helps us understand the different ways people participate in media-making. Even when you are just scrolling through social media, you are participating and using creative choice. Here is the taxonomy of media practices found in the book:

There are different perspectives digital storytellers take when telling a story:

When people think of digital storytelling, they most likely only think about videos and pictures, but there are many other approaches that can be taken when creating a digital story.

All information was retrieved from the source listed below:

Lambert, Joe and Brooke Hessler. Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community (5th ed.). New York: Routledge, 2018.

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