Digital storytelling has been used in a variety of community settings often with the aim of helping people understand and explain their identities, especially in conflicted settings or in marginalized.
Digital storytelling can help the storyteller fro
m whatever context foster a sense of their own identity and individuality, particularly when the production process is partly collaborative. Within t
he educational environment, issues of investigating and establishing identities are also pertinent. Digital storytelling can also be a tool of social empowering, and as such is used in several different initiatives across the globe. Many of these projects give a ‘voice’ to learners who are usually not heard, as a result of their illiteracy and / or marginal status.