Introduction
Digital storytelling brings together the use of language and the digital environment to enhance narrative, convey particular elements of a narrative, or to expand the narrative into new venues. This is to say, digital storytelling (re)produces place and space through a digital medium by explicitly linking language to various types of media—as Marshall McLuhan is famous for saying: “the message is in the medium.” We have chosen to include a section on digital storytelling because this is not a practice used solely by authors of fiction, but can be employed by educators and presenters of all types (many TED talks could be considered a form of digital storytelling; including these TEDx talks on digital storytelling:
Below you will find resources for developing digital storytelling for numerous uses and professions.
Books
Digital Storytelling by Call Number: ARC General Collection QA76.76.I59 D54 2017ISBN: 9781137591517Publication Date: 2018-01-23This edited collection brings together academics and practitioners to explore the uses of Digital Storytelling, which places the greatest possible emphasis on the voice of the storyteller.
Digital Storytelling 4e by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9780429801839Publication Date: 2019-11-04This fourth edition of Digital Storytelling: A creator's guide to interactive entertainment dives deeply into the world of interactive storytelling, a form of storytelling made possible by digital media.
Digital Storytelling As Public History by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781000284805Publication Date: 2020-12-23Digital Storytelling as Public History: A Guidebook for Educators provides a practical methodology for teaching public history in the digital age.
Immersive Longform Storytelling by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 113859542XPublication Date: 2019-03-29A deep dive into the world of online and multimedia longform storytelling, this book charts the renaissance in deep reading, viewing and listening associated with the literary mind, and the resulting implications of its rise in popularity.
The New Digital Storytelling by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781440849619Publication Date: 2017-07-20Newly revised and updated, this is the essential guide to state-of-the-art digital storytelling for audiences, creators, and teachers.
Postdigital Storytelling by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781351621489Publication Date: 2019-10-16Postdigital Storytelling offers a groundbreaking re-evaluation of one of the most dynamic and innovative areas of creativity today: digital storytelling.
Quantified Storytelling by Call Number: New books 2nd floor HM742 .G46 2020ISBN: 9783030480738Publication Date: 2020-09-20This book interrogates the role of quantification in stories on social media: how do visible numbers (e.g. of views, shares, likes) and invisible algorithmic measurements shape the stories we post and engage with?
Theory, Development, and Strategy in Transmedia Storytelling by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 1000078523Publication Date: 2020-05-17This book explores transmedia dynamics in various facets of fiction and nonfiction transmedia studies.
Transmedial Worlds and Everyday Life by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 1138557986Publication Date: 2019-09-30In this pioneering new book, authors Klastrup and Tosca explore the many ways that transmedial worlds are present in people's everyday life, proposing a new theory of (trans)media use for the digital age.
Understanding Engagement in Transmedia Culture by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 1315208059Publication Date: 2019-11-15This book offers a new, interdisciplinary model for understanding audience engagement as a type of behaviour, a form of response and a cost to audiences that, combined, offer value to the screen industries.
