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Story Work for a Just Future: Exploring the Plurality of Knowledge and Method within the Digital Storytelling Community

Antonia Liguori, Philippa Rappoport, Daniela Gachago (eds.)

Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press (2025), xiii, 227 pp.

"[...] new digital formats require people to craft their stories in new ways while capturing the emotion, nuance, and themes of what they remember and what they believe to be significant. They must learn through reflection, questioning, consideration, trial, revision, and feedback—and chapters in ... the book highlight efforts like workshopping at Berkeley’s StoryCenter, the Smithsonian’s Learning Lab, and elsewhere to give people a facility with digital technology to enable them to tell their stories. This is quite a transformation when one considers that for most of recent history the ability to disseminate stories was in the hands of those who controlled the means of story production—publishers, radio stations, and music, television, and movie companies. Now, with widespread digital access, anyone can, at least theoretically, become their own publisher, their own media company, their own distribution center. The locus of creativity and production does not have to be a Hollywood lot or a music studio—it can be, as illustrated herein, a community center, kitchen table, shelter, clinic, library, or school. The democratization of the production process means access to and participation in a much larger civic space. The purpose of Digital Storytelling exemplified in this collection of case studies and examples is not propagandistic or about spreading misinformation and distrust that nefariously aim to destabilize and even undermine societies. Nor is it about somehow imitating human storytelling by using artificial intelligence to entertain and intrigue audiences. Rather it is about encouraging people to tell their story and thus participate in the civic life of their community, group, nation, and the world. It is about their active, vital role in contributing to a larger good that they may enhance, enlarge, or elucidate by fashioning their experiences and lessons into a receivable format. As is apparent throughout the volume’s project descriptions and free-flowing conversations, Digital Storytelling is young enough that it retains an emergent quality characteristic of a growing form of cultural creativity and expression. Given that digital media will be with us for a long time, one would expect Digital Storytelling to branch out in an increasing diversity of ways, forms, and contexts. And as it grows and diversifies, one would expect its challenges—matters of storyteller privacy and discretion, thresholds of individual and community participation in securing resources and facilities, the underpreparation of participants and the overfacilitation of guides and mentors, limits of copyright and the fair use of digital components, the ethics of dissemination and reactions to reception—to also be addressed in a variety of ways." (Foreword, pages vii-viii) more

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Story Tech: Power, Storytelling, and Social Change Advocacy

Filippo Trevisan, Michael Vaughan, Ariadne Vromen

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2025), vi, 249 pp.

"Personal stories have the power to stir the heart, compel us to act, and spark social change. While advocacy organizations have long used storytelling in campaigns, the role technology plays has increased. Today, invitations to "share your story" are widespread on advocacy organizations and politic ... more

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Documentary Storytelling: Creative Nonfiction on Screen

Sheila Curran Bernard

New York; London: Routledge, 5th ed. (2023), xix, 373 pp.

"For nearly two decades, Documentary Storytelling has reached filmmakers and filmgoers worldwide with its unique focus on the key ingredient for success in the global documentary marketplace: storytelling. As this revised, updated fifth edition makes clear, nonfiction storytelling is not limited to ... more

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Nachhaltigkeit erzählen: Durch Storytelling besser kommunizieren?

Daniel Fischer, Sonja Fücker, Hanna Selm, Anna Sundermann (eds.)

München: Oekom Verlag (2021), 178 pp.

"Das Geschichtenerzählen ist tief in der Menschheitsgeschichte verankert. In Geschichten erleben wir, wie Figuren Herausforderungen begegnen, Gefahren bewältigen oder Erlebnisse verarbeiten. Indem sie neue Erfahrungen und Handlungsmöglichkeiten eröffnen, können uns Geschichten helfen, die kompl ... more

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Mobile Storytelling in an Age of Smartphones

Max Schleser, Xiaoge Xu (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xiii, 275 pp.

"This book explores contemporary approaches to mobile storytelling, with contributions covering mobile education, news and screen storytelling, creative practice research, and the impact on vulnerable communities and social innovation. With 18 original chapters, Schleser and Xu bring together intern ... more

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Transmedia Storytelling in East Asia: The Age of Digital Media

Dal Yong Jin (ed.)

London: Routledge (2020), xvi, 253 pp.

"This book offers a thorough investigation of the recent surge of webtoons and manga / animation as the sources of transmedia storytelling for popular culture, not only in East Asia but in the wider global context. An international team of experts employ a unique theoretical framework of media conve ... more

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We Are Crying for Our Land: Stories from the Panguna Listening Project
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Bougainville: Catholic Diocese of Bougainville (2019), 45 pp.

"The Panguna Listening Project (PLP) is an initiative of the Catholic Diocese of Bougainville (DOB), led by Bishop Bernard Unabali seeking to make the voices of the people heard and making the people safe in the Panguna mine-affected areas. It is a neutral project and does not take a position on the ... more

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Using visual storytelling for women's empowerment

Tamara Plush

Media Development, volume 60, issue 3 (2013), pp. 25-29

"Communicators who work with photography and video in the development context know the power visuals can have in bearing witness to the reality people living in poverty face. When contextualized, visuals can transcend distance and create a global dialog around topics in need of deeper understanding ... more

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Geschichten-Handbuch: Brücken bauen mit narrativen Methoden

Stephanie Colton, Victoria Ward, Jeannine Brutschin

Bern: Direktion für Entwicklung und Zusammenarbeit (DEZA) (2006), 45 pp.

"Eine Geschichte zu erzählen ist grundsätzlich etwas Einfaches, das alle kennen und mit dem sich starke Gefühle hervorrufen und Erkenntnisse herbeiführen lassen. Komplizierter ist die Arbeit mit Geschichten im Rahmen der Tätigkeit von Organisationen, wenn damit zu Reflektionen angeregt, Gemeins ... more

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De la narratologie au storytelling digital : Pour une information efficace

Dieudonné Tebangasa Apala

Paris: L'Harmattan (2024), 243 pp.

"La narratologie comme science de la production-analyse-diffusion du récit, touche tous les secteurs de la vie (toute discipline dont l'objet est sous forme de récit) : narratologie littéraire, médiatique, journalistique, catéchétique, éducative, psychologique, analyse et publicité narrative ... more

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Narratives Crossing Boundaries: Storytelling in a Transmedial and Transdisciplinary Context

Joachim Friedmann (ed.)

Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2023), 280 pp.

"As the dominant narrative forms in the age of media convergence, films and games call for a transmedial perspective in narratology. Games allow a participatory reception of the story, bringing the transgression of the ontological boundary between the narrated world and the world of the recipient in ... more

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Better conversations about ethical storytelling: Bringing together different perspectives from the development, humanitarian, and philanthropic sectors
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M&C Saatchi World Services (2023), 110 pp.

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Elevating the Uses of Storytelling Methods Within Indigenous Health Research: A Critical, Participatory Scoping Review

Kendra L. Rieger, Mabel Horton, Sherry Copenace, Marlyn Bennett, Mandy Buss et al.

International Journal of Qualitative Methods, volume 22 (2023), 24 pp.

"There is a profoundly troubling history of research being done on Indigenous peoples without regard for their priorities and accompanying calls to decolonize health research. Storytelling methods can privilege Indigenous voices in research. Indigenous people’s knowledge systems have existed for m ... more

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Who owns the story? Live financial testing of charity vs participant led storytelling in fundraising

Jes Crombie, David Girling

London College of Communication; University of East Anglia (2022), 53 pp.

"This project demonstrates that there is another way of gathering and sharing the stories of people living in poverty around the world. Until now, there has been much positive and enthusiastic discussion amongst INGO communications and fundraising professionals about how to change the way we tell st ... more

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Digital Media and Storytelling in Higher Education

Anita Lanszki

Paris: L'Harmattan (2022), 220 pp.

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Storytelling für Journalisten: Wie baue ich eine gute Geschichte?

Marie Lampert, Rolf Wespe

Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag, 5th ed. (2021), 262 pp.

"Aufmerksamkeit ist die Leitwährung im Journalismus. Journalisten müssen den Leuten Lebenszeit stehlen, damit sie sich für ihre Botschaft interessieren. Wie lenken Sie die Aufmerksamkeit des Publikums auf Ihre Botschaft? Mit Storytelling. Storytelling heißt, eine Sprache zu finden, die Hirn und ... more

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How to Write About Africa in 8 Steps: An Ethical Storytelling Handbook
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Rebecca Pointer

Africa No Filter (2021), 31 pp.

"Storytelling is the most powerful way for donor and non-governmental organisations to convey their work because stories allow audiences to connect on both intellectual and emotional levels. However, much of the storytelling about development work in Africa is unethical and perpetuates harmful and s ... more

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Digital Storytelling Guidebook
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Transforming the Field Education Landscape (TFEL)

Calgary: University of Calgary (2021), 20 pp.

"Digital storytelling has been in use since the early 1990s, yet remains a little-known and underutilized method, particularly in social work field education by field educators and students, both in the classroom and field placement settings. As a practice resource, this Digital Storytelling Guidebo ... more

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Storytelling educativo: El arte de narrar experiencias que inspiren

Lima: Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo de la Educación Peruana (FONDEP) (2021), 124 pp.

We Are Crying for Our Land: Stories from the Panguna Listening Project Top Insights

Better conversations about ethical storytelling: Bringing together different perspectives from the development, humanitarian, and philanthropic sectors Key Guidance

How to Write About Africa in 8 Steps: An Ethical Storytelling Handbook Key Guidance

Digital Storytelling Guidebook Key Guidance

We Are Crying for Our Land: Stories from the Panguna Listening Project
Top Insights

Better conversations about ethical storytelling: Bringing together different perspectives from the development, humanitarian, and philanthropic sectors
Key Guidance

How to Write About Africa in 8 Steps: An Ethical Storytelling Handbook
Key Guidance

Digital Storytelling Guidebook
Key Guidance