What is digital storytelling?

At a basic level, digital storytelling means using technology to tell stories. You can tell digital stories in many ways, for example: through text on a website or social media tool, through narration and images in a video, or through narration in a podcast.

(https://tlp-lpa.ca/digital-skills/digital-storytelling)

Digital storytelling is a community-based activity and should be distinguished from electronic literature, which is a literary movement where genres include hypertext fiction, digital poetry, interactive fiction, generative literature, and from other forms of digital narrative, for instance in video games or fan fiction.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_storytelling)

Digital storytelling at its most basic core is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. There is a wealth of other terms used to describe this practice, such as digital documentaries, computer-based narratives, digital essays, electronic memoirs, interactive storytelling, etc.; but in general, they all revolve around the idea of combining the art of telling stories with a variety of multimedia, including graphics, audio, video, and Web publishing.

(https://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/page.cfm?id=27&cid=27)

Digital storytelling describes a simple, creative process through which people with little or no experience in computer filmmaking gain the skills needed to tell a personal story as a two-minute film using predominantly still images and voiceover. These films can then be streamed on the web or broadcast on television.

A digital storyteller can be anyone who has the desire to document life experiences, ideas, or feelings through the use of stories and digital media. Usually, it is someone with little experience in video production but with time to spend a few days attending a workshop and developing a story with creative support and technical assistance from compassionate, experienced facilitators.

The uses of digital storytelling range from a means to express creativity, to a research method for local health issues or a means of preserving a community’s identity and a form of oral history. As a method, digital storytelling combines techniques to develop literacy and storytelling skills with an introduction to basic Information and Communication Technology (ICT), using group exercises and individual processes that develop confidence and build self-esteem.

On the surface, these digital stories are all singular, personal audio-visual accounts of an individual’s story, yet their making of them is shaped by the collaborative experience in the workshop. Each story shows how someone envisages their place in a personal and a public world.

(https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/digitalstorytelling/what-is-digital-storytelling/)