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Podcast: New Books in Communications
Episode: Hartmut Koenitz, "Understanding Interactive Digital Narrative: Immersive Expressions for a Complex Time" (Routledge, 2023)
Description: 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.Looking back over the past 30 years of theorizing around interactivity, storytelling, and the digital across the fields of game design/game studies, media studies, and narratology, as well as interactive documentary and other emerging forms, Hartmut Koenitz's book  Understanding Interactive Digital Narrative: Immersive Expressions for a Complex Time  (Routledge, 2023) offers important and insightful correctives to common misunderstandings that pervade the...