Navigating Interactive Story Spaces

Auteurs Renée van der Nat , Piet Bakker
Gepubliceerd in Digital Journalism
Publicatiedatum 2021
Lectoraat Kwaliteitsjournalistiek in Digitale Transitie
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Over the past decade, journalists have created in-depth interactive narratives to provide an alternative to the relentless 24-hour news cycle. Combining different media forms, such as text, audio, video, and data visualisation with the interactive possibilities of digital media, these narratives involve users in the narrative in new ways. In journalism studies, the convergence of different media forms in this manner has gained significant attention. However, interactivity as part of this form has been left underappreciated. In this study, we scrutinise how navigational structure, expressed as navigational cues, shapes user agency in their individual explorations of the narrative. By approaching interactive narratives as story spaces with unique interactive architectures, in this article, we reconstruct the architecture of five Dutch interactive narratives using the walkthrough method. We find that the extensiveness of the interactive architectures can be described on a continuum between closed and open navigational structures that predetermine and thus shape users’ trajectories in diverse ways.

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Taal Engels
Gepubliceerd in Digital Journalism
Trefwoorden interactive narrative, digital longform journalism, multimodality, narrative space, architecture of interaction, user agency
Digital Object Identifier 10.1080/21670811.2021.1960178

Renée van der Nat

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Renée van der Nat

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  • Lectoraat: Kwaliteitsjournalistiek in Digitale Transitie