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Approaches Towards Novel Phenomena. a Reflection on Issues in IDN Research, Teaching and Practice

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2022)

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What happens when scholars approach novel phenomena such as Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN)? How can we be certain that theoretical frameworks, analytical approaches, and vocabulary are adequate,which means that they are able to fully describe the specific characteristics of the novel phenomena? The same goes for approaches in the practice - how can we be sure that the chosen design methods enable the use of the full expressive potential of a novel phenomena? Furthermore, we ask how we can critique and improve categories and approaches? We reflect on how theory and analytical approaches have been produced so far, identify issues with the current practice, consider alternatives and propose a number of measures to improve the situation. Amongst them are increased efforts on the meta-level in terms of theoretical development and reflective works which concern themselves with the further development of the field, iterative approaches towards theory and method, a more critical approach in education, multi-method analysis, and dynamic representations.

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    A related perspective exists in psychology with the term “concept creep” [23].

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    A rare positive counter example might be the field of software studies.

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Koenitz, H., Eladhari, M.P. (2022). Approaches Towards Novel Phenomena. a Reflection on Issues in IDN Research, Teaching and Practice. In: Vosmeer, M., Holloway-Attaway, L. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13762. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22298-6_28

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