Digital Storytelling Capturing Lives, Creating Community

By Joe Lambert and Brooke Hessler

Book Overview

Listen deeply. Tell stories. This is the mantra of the Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS) in Berkeley California, which, since 1998 has worked with nearly 1,000 organizations around the world and trained more than 15,000 people in the art of digital storytelling. In this revised and updated edition of the CDS's popular guide to digital storytelling, co-founder Joe Lambert details the history and methods of digital storytelling practices. Using a "7 Steps" approach, Lambert helps storytellers identify the fundamentals of dynamic digital storytelling--from seeing the story, assembling it, and sharing it. As in the last edition, readers of the fourth edition will also find new explorations of the applications of digital storytelling and updated appendices that provide resources for budding digital storytellers, including information about past and present CDS-affiliated projects and place-based storytelling, a narrative-based approach to understanding experience and landscape. A companion website further brings the entire storytelling process to life. Over the years, the CDS's work has transformed the way that community activists, educators, health and human services agencies, business professionals, and artists think about story, media, culture, and the power of personal voice in creating change. For those who yearn to tell multimedia stories, Digital Storytelling is the place to begin.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1616238496
• ISBN13: 9781616238490
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Digital Diner Press
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Get your hands on this book

This book is available for sale directly from the Center for Digital Storytelling website for $25 by visiting: www.storycenter.org/book.htmlThe proceeds of the book, if purchased directly from the Center, go to the CDS scholarship fund.Thank you for your interest.

Great resource

This book is a gift to all of us who seek to tell our stories and those of our families and our communities. Excellent chapters on capturing memories, storyboarding, and digital filmmaking. Filmmakers, educators, media artists, oral historians, and genealogists will all find a treasure trove of accessible information --- and powerful, motivating stories.