ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book maps some of the diverse ways in which stories of lived experience have been used to prompt listening, learning, and change in health and social policy settings internationally. It focuses on personal experiential stories, recorded in a variety of digital forms. The book investigates the ways that digital stories have been listened to and learned from in professional education, primary and acute health care, community and place-based health and advocacy and policymaking. The term "digital storytelling" refers to life-story telling in a variety of mediated forms deployed to prompt social change. The book discusses the important tradition of what Kelly McWilliam terms "specific" digital storytelling or what others have described as "the digital storytelling movement" or "classic" digital storytelling. It examines the applications of digital storytelling in professional health education.
