Introduction to digital storytelling

Digital storytelling (DST) is a participatory creative process that utilises multimedia to produce digital stories. DST as a research method often falls within the category of community-based research with the aim of facilitating the production of digital stories that are created by the participants themselves. A digital story is typically defined as a short three-to-five-minute multimedia narrative that uses images, video, audio recordings of voice and music and text to create a unique and compelling story of lived experiences. The method presented in this chapter is based on and adapted from the work of ‘ StoryCenter ’. The chapter will provide an outline of the principles, including a brief history of the method and a guiding framework for how to conduct DST in research, followed by reflections from researchers using DST in sport research.