Oral narration and writing on paper are nowadays supported by different means through which we tell stories, share experiences, knowledge and reflections. The use of new technologies and the linguistic mediators that allow for the simultaneous use of different communication channels are more and more wide-spread: videos, photos and digital images, voices and sounds, merged into a single message, can contribute to making communication and storytelling emotionally powerful and stimulating.

Digital storytelling is a narrative method that uses a variety of digital tools, such as applications, software or webware. The outcome of this type of storytelling is a video, usually very short, fruit of the syntonic union of different media: images, videos, sounds, a soundtrack / music and, in particular, one or more narrative voices that tell a story. In the case of multilingual storytelling, the story is in multiple languages.

Digital storytelling has spread since the early 1990s, when Joe Lambert and Dana Atcheley founded the Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS), a non-profit community based in Berkley, California.

Although digital storytelling was born in the field of marketing, its enormous educational potential has spread to other fields, including education and pedagogy.