Digital Storytelling

Digital Storytelling: A Creator's Guide to Interactive Entertainment 5th edition delves into the fascinating and groundbreaking stories enabled by interactive digital media, examining both fictional and non-fiction narratives. This fifth edition, Volume 1, explores monumental developments, particularly the emergence of generative AI, and highlights exciting projects utilizing this technology. Additionally, it covers the enormous power social media, examining how news transmitted by social media has led to the decline of traditional newspapers and has prompted the subsequent rise of newspaper-produced interactive documentaries. It includes discussions of the negative power of social media, covering its dangers to children and the use of deepfake information in political campaigns. It also spotlights the popularity of social media influencers and the narratives they tell, and the allure to young children of an influencer’s career. Volume 1 also delves into new kinds of digital characters, like AI enabled chatbots and chatbot creations of real people who have been resurrected from the dead.

Carolyn Handler Miller provides insights into storytelling essentials like character development, plot, structure, dialogue, and emotion, while examining how digital media and interactivity influence these elements.

With numerous case studies, this edition illustrates the creative possibilities of digital storytelling and its applications beyond entertainment, such as education, training, information, and promotion. Interviews with industry leaders further enhance the understanding of this evolving universe, making it a valuable resource for both professionals and enthusiasts.

- Includes up-to-the-minute developments in Digital Storytelling

- Offers case-studies of note-worthy examples of Digital Storytelling

- Includes a glossary clearly defining new or difficult terms

- Each chapter opens with several thought-provoking questions about the chapter’s topic.

- Each chapter concludes with several creative and engaging exercises to promote the reader’s understanding to the chapter’s topic