The Audiovisual Dimension & the Digital Turn in Public History Practices

The historical tale has always been more effective and engaging with the use of sounds and images than with the fixity of the written word. In a certain way,the audio/visual dimension allowed by the digital turn brings the tale back to its original fluidity, returning it to its original identity. As a tale made by sounds and images, the“story”must have its own styles, special effects, pauses, and rhythms,which have a decisive and primary importance related to its contents. The current digital revolution has emphasized this ability of the storytelling to influence, invoke and evocate and captivate by multiplying the ways and the tools in order to produce and publish audio-visual“stories”and increasing and modifying the impact force of the historical audiovisual narrative.