One of the most basic needs of human beings is to communicate and throughout the history, people have used storytelling frequently to fulfill this need. Storytelling, which is one of the ways of expressing emotions and thoughts, has become important in different fields of communication studies day by day. It is possible to say that storytelling stands out in communication studies such as public relations, advertising, cinema, television, branding, political communication and digital

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... n. Storytelling is regarded as an important communication tool today, as it is in verbal culture, because digital technologies exist in social life as important tools that characterize communication. The study aims to examine the reflection of the transforming storytelling on digital environments in terms of content and technique. In the study, YouTuber "Fly With Haifa", who is selected by YouTube as the Creators for Change in 2017-2018, is analyzed. Her video titled "Almost Bit by a Shark" is analyzed in terms of storytelling. The reason Fly With Haifa is chosen in the analysis is because it has a postmodern feature and it unites East and West in the video. In the study where content analysis technique was used with a qualitative pattern, content and technical analyses were used to understand how digital stories created through "Fly With Haifa". As a result of the analysis, it was found that the basic components of the story, the story itself, the narrator, and the listener - although the basic elements of the story remain the same - have been transformed in terms of technique and content.