Digital Storytelling and Implicated Scholarship in the Classroom

This essay describes the development of digital storytelling as a popular multimedia work and how the authors have applied it in the university classroom. As a pedagogical tool, digital storytelling offers a unique learning experience for students. The authors explore student discourse about the learning and situate this experience within a framework of implicated scholarship, an ongoing engagement between the academy and society. Implicated scholarship is developed in the methodology and practice of the French visual ethnographer Jean Rouch and has a deep historical lineage running through Canadian applied anthropology. Digital storytelling in an implicated vein protects and illuminates social complexity.