Interactive Digital Narrative: History, Theory And Practice (Routledge Studies In European Communication Research And Education)

The book is concerned with narrative in digital media that changes according to user input--Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN). It provides a broad overview of current issues and future directions in this multi-disciplinary field that includes humanities-based and computational perspectives. It assembles the voices of leading researchers and practitioners like Janet Murray, Marie-Laure Ryan, Marc Cavazza, and Martin Rieser. In three sections, it covers history, theoretical perspectives, and varieties of practice including narrative game design, with a special focus on changes in the power relationship between audience and author enabled by interactivity. After discussing the historical development of diverse forms, the book presents theoretical standpoints including a semiotic perspective, a proposal for a specific theoretical framework, and an inquiry into the role of artificial intelligence. Finally, it analyses varieties of current practice from digital poetry to location-based applications, artistic experiments and expanded remakes of older narrative game titles.

• | Author: Hartmut Koenitz, Gabriele Ferri, Mads Haahr, Digdem Sezen, Tonguc Ibrahim Sezen
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Apr 01, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 286 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138782394
• | ISBN-13: 9781138782396