Whenever I introduce myself as a digital storyteller, I get curiosity and genuine interest. Everyone knows what storyteller is, but a digital storyteller, aah... eyebrows raise and heads cock to the side. I've gathered these short answers from masters of this emerging genre. They speak for me, and anyone who is committed to using the wealth of technology as the means of spreading an age-old practice.
"They are artists/writers using new tools and techniques, like HTML hyper-text linking for the web, animation programming in Macromedia Director and digital movie-making using Adobe Premiere, to tell their stories." Corey Hitchcock. "The world of digital storytelling"
"Digital Stories are short, personal, multimedia tales, told from the heart. Anyone can make them and publish them on screens anywhere. They have the potential to be a very democratic kind of storytelling." Daniel Meadows, www.photobus.co.uk