Challenges of IDN Research and Teaching

ICIDS2020 Panel: Building the Discipline of Interactive Digital Narratives

“…He has been closely associated with the ACM Hypertext Conference from its foundation in 1987, and has been program chair of that conference (twice), of ACM WikiSym, and of ACM Web Science. His most recent digital story is Those Trojan Girls [8] and his most recent book is Intertwingled [4].…”

“…Interactive digital storytelling often spends its time reporting on the work of industrial practice [10] or promoting its knowledge of methods for enhancing business productivity [8].…”

“…The lack of a shared vocabulary is a longstanding issue of the field of interactive digital storytelling that has been compared to the biblical metaphor of the "Babylonian confusio" [8]. Scholars and practitioners concerned with the topic of interactive digital narratives originate in a number of different fields, including literature studies, film studies, computer sciences and many more.…”

Editorial: Interactive digital narratives representing complexity

“…Given the status of IND research as an interdisciplinary field of study, the questions of adequate frameworks (Koenitz and Eladhari, 2019;Koenitz, 2021), design conventions (Murray, 2011;Koenitz et al, 2018a), transhistorical approaches (Rouse and Holloway-Attaway, 2020;Holloway-Attaway and Rouse, 2022) and evaluation (Roth, 2016;Steinemann et al, 2017) are ongoing concerns. Lately, the question of ethics in the creation process (Fisher and Schoemann, 2018;Barbara et al, 2021) and of decolonialization of underlying narrative structures and other assumptions (Koenitz et al, 2018b;Silva et al, 2022) have found increased attention in part inspired by similar developments in game studies (Mukherjee, 2018;de Paula, 2021;Trammell, 2022).…”