Digital Story Telling
Digital story telling is bringing us back to the interactive nature in we which we used to share stories.
"Interactive media give us the opportunity to leave behind some of the constraints placed on narrative by print film and tape. The story need not be a fixed absolute in which events are forced to repeat themselves forever. It can become dynamic and the experience of telling a story can become more improvisational, a two-way discourse."
- David Bliss
The human need to communicate is basic, runs across all cultures and is evidenced in all eras. As a condensed history its believed that the earliest cave paintings were probably incorporated into musical and theatrical performances. Much much later, theatrical performance inspired radio, television, and film production, which not much later inspired a new era of interactive media, including computer and video games.
And we know Interactive “media” existed long before computers. The medieval mystery play provided a role for everyone in the village; the Victorian family gathered in the living room to play new chamber-music pieces. Every age has had participatory forms that blurred the line between performer and audience. It's only in our age, with our dominant model of broadcasting that we see an unprecedented passive approach to the consumption of stories and music.