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Author: Hartmut Koenitz (HKU University of the Arts, Utrecht, Netherlands)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.580kg
ISBN: 9780367617592
ISBN 10: 0367617595
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 08 April 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Janet Murray Professor, School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology, Director of the Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center: In this comprehensive and synthetic survey of the diverse practices and evolving critical frameworks of Interactive Digital Narrative, Koenitz does a masterful job of establishing the social and cultural imperative for moving beyond legacy formats to capture the complexity of our moment with more richly interactive complex modes of digital storytelling. He also offers his own groundbreaking theoretical analysis of digital narrative, moving us past the structures of print-oriented narratology, cinema studies, and game studies, with new vocabulary and design guidance that offer deeper understanding and exciting new expressive possibilities for this crucial genre of the 21st century. Mads Haahr (CEO Haunted Planet Studio and Associate Professor Trinity College Dublin): Hartmut Koenitz has written an important and ambitious book. Not only does he take on the plethora of misunderstandings around interactive digital narratives and arrives at a way in which we can think and talk about them without getting bogged down in irrelevant ideas from other narrative forms, but he also presents a model for how we can go about designing interactive digital narratives that does justice to the medium and its unique characteristics. Koentiz’s passion for the topic is rivaled only by his deep understanding of it. This book is one of the biggest steps forward in the theory and design of interactive digital narratives in a long time and a milestone towards the maturation of this new way of telling stories.
Janet Murray Professor, School of Literature, Media, and Communication, Georgia Institute of Technology, Director of the Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center: In this comprehensive and synthetic survey of the diverse practices and evolving critical frameworks of Interactive Digital Narrative, Koenitz does a masterful job of establishing the social and cultural imperative for moving beyond legacy formats to capture the complexity of our moment with more richly interactive complex modes of digital storytelling. He also offers his own groundbreaking theoretical analysis of digital narrative, moving us past the structures of print-oriented narratology, cinema studies, and game studies, with new vocabulary and design guidance that offer deeper understanding and exciting new expressive possibilities for this crucial genre of the 21st century. Mads Haahr (CEO Haunted Planet Studio and Associate Professor Trinity College Dublin): Hartmut Koenitz has written an important and ambitious book. Not only does he take on the plethora of misunderstandings around interactive digital narratives and arrives at a way in which we can think and talk about them without getting bogged down in irrelevant ideas from other narrative forms, but he also presents a model for how we can go about designing interactive digital narratives that does justice to the medium and its unique characteristics. Koentiz's passion for the topic is rivaled only by his deep understanding of it. This book is one of the biggest steps forward in the theory and design of interactive digital narratives in a long time and a milestone towards the maturation of this new way of telling stories.
Author Information
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.
