In fact, digital storytelling has become such a compelling medium for displaying information that college courses have been built to teach its intricacies.
Digital storytelling is “a way of talking about something that conveys not only information, but emotion and significance as well”, according to the CIO at Ohio State. It communicates who we are, what we do, and why we care.
Why do we care?
When we view or hear a story, our brains light up like houses during Christmastime.
What are sports organizations doing to incorporate online storytelling into their strategy to excite our brains?
We've participate in and we watch sports through a wide scope of media platforms, including broadcast, cable, satellite, interactive TV, radio, social media, mobile media, online media, and location-based media.
Now, we can add storytelling to that list of media platforms.
Sports organizations are now utilizing digital storytelling to communicate what they do and who they are.
Teams are now raconteurs when they infuse multimedia into storytelling, and the power cannot be denied.
What is one platform that is being used to "artify" content in sports marketing?
These photo narratives convey a story, a theme, rather than static images of game action or player personalities.
For example, take this story by Clemson about a former basketball guard.
Or this story about the goings on behind the scenes at a B1G basketball game.
Or how about a uniform unveiling.
Exposure enhances visual storytelling with digital content that conveys a narrative storyline.
The fundamentals are not out of the ordinary. At its core, digital storytelling is simply writing and producing functional content for digital consumption.
What is exemplary about digital and visual storytelling in sports is that it conveys themes through the combination of copy and photos.
See more examples in sports at Social 'n Sport's blog post.
Photo and video are being utilized to tell stories now.
Have you identified the future of storytelling?
