Towards a Decolonial Framework for IDN

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).…”

“…INDCOR connects over 200 scholars from more than 40 countries and is a coordinated effort in establishing a shared conceptual framework and vocabulary (Koenitz et al, 2020), an understanding of societal impact (Silva et al, 2022), empirical evaluation methods, as well as generalized design and production methods (Perkis and Taveter, 2022). The members of INDCOR are driven by the conviction that the present challenges facing the global community including climate change, economic inequality, migration, oppression and armed conflict require novel approaches to create understanding of these highly complex topics and to foster discourse.…”