Interactive Digital Narrative

By Hartmut Koenitz, Gabriele Ferri, Mads Haahr, Diğdem Sezen & Tonguç İbrahim Sezen

Release : 2015-04-10

Genre : Digital Media, Books, Computers & Internet, Computers, Nonfiction, Social Science, Reference, Words & Language, History, Arts & Entertainment, Society, Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Programming, Professional & Technical, Education, Language Arts & Disciplines, Communications & Media, Software, Internet

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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, Scott Rettberg 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.

Interactive Digital Narrative

By Hartmut Koenitz, Gabriele Ferri, Mads Haahr, Diğdem Sezen & Tonguç İbrahim Sezen

Release : 2015-04-10

Genre : Digital Media, Books, Computers & Internet, Computers, Nonfiction, Social Science, Reference, Words & Language, History, Arts & Entertainment, Society, Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, Programming, Professional & Technical, Education, Language Arts & Disciplines, Communications & Media, Software, Internet

Kind : ebook

(0 ratings)
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, Scott Rettberg 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.

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