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This remarkably clearly written and timely critical evaluation of core issues in the study and application of interactive digital narrative (IDN) untangles the range of theories and arguments that have developed around IDN over the past three decades.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Characteristics and Challenges of Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN)? 2. Conceptual Challenges for IDNs – Assessing Narrative Nundamentalism and Narrative Indifference 3. SPP – A model and Analytical Framework for IDN 4. IDN Design 5. Where to Go from Here – Advocacy, Opportunities and Future Work
About the author
Hartmut Koenitz is an associate professor at Sodertorn University in Stockholm, a visiting researcher at the University of Amsterdam, and a visiting research fellow at Trinity College Dublin. He has published over 60 scholarly publications including the co-edited volume Interactive Digital Narrative: History, theory and practice (Routledge 2015). Koenitz is the president of ARDIN, the Association for Research in Digital Interactive Narratives (https:// ardin.onl ine). He is also the creator of the Advanced Stories Authoring and Presentation System authoring tool (ASAPS), which has been used to create more than 150 works, and a visual artist whose works have been shown in Atlanta, Paris, Istanbul, Seoul, Copenhagen, and Porto.
Summary
This remarkably clearly written and timely critical evaluation of core issues in the study and application of interactive digital narrative (IDN) untangles the range of theories and arguments that have developed around IDN over the past three decades.