Digital Storytelling - Bibliography

Here's a short list of books about story and digital storytelling.

This list contains books I have read. I'm sure there are many more. Also, the books here are mostly about writing personal, compelling, nonfiction narratives.

I've added suggested chapters beneath each title which, in my humble opinion, are the gems of each book.

One book I'd like to add is Joe Lambert's book. The third edition is almost ready to be published. I'll update this list when it arrives. If you have any book title suggestions please let me know in the comments.



1. Hartley and McWilliam. Story Circle, Digital Storytelling Around the World. West Sussex, U.K. Blackwell, 2009.

Suggested: Chapter 18, page 252. Digital Storytelling in Education, An Emerging Institutional Technology? by Patrick Lowenthal

2. Pink, Daniel. A Whole New Mind, Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age. New York, Penguin Group, 2005

Suggested: Chapter 5, page 98. Story

3. Porter, Bernajean. DigiTales, The Art of Telling Digital Stories. Colorado, 2004.

Suggested: Chapter 5, page 107. Stepping Through Making a Digital Story

4. Field, Billy. Make a Movie That Tells a Story. Alabama, 2000.

Suggested: Chapter 2, page 5. Story & Screenplay

5. Sheridan, Sherri. Developing Digital Short Films. Pearson, 2004

Suggested: Part 1, page 18. Digital Storytelling, Beginning the Story Concept Process

6. Ohler, Jason. Digital Storytelling in the Classroom. Corwin, 2008.

Suggested: Chapter 8, page 107. Transformation Formations. How We, and the Characters in Our Stories, Change

7. McClean, Shilo T. Digital Storytelling. The Power of Visual Effects in Film. MIT Press, 2007.

Suggested: Chapter 2, page 15. Once upon a Time: Story and Storycraft