Ebook: Interactive Digital Narrative: History, Theory and Practice
- Genre: Art
- Tags: Intelligence & Semantics, AI & Machine Learning, Computer Science, Computers & Technology, Graphics & Design, Adobe, CAD, Computer Modelling, Desktop Publishing, Electronic Documents, Rendering & Ray Tracing, User Experience & Usability, Computers & Technology, Web Design, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Web Development & Design, Computers & Technology, Digital Audio Video & Photography, Adobe, Digital Audio Production, Digital Photography, Speech & Audio Processing, Video Production, Computers & Technology, Communicatio
- Series: Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Routledge
- Language: English
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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.