Interactive Digital Narratives: A Close Reading Of Bandersnatch To Analyze The Aesthetic Relations With The User

• Authors: Monteiro Ana Catarina
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Computational and interactive technologies are ubiquitous and play an increasingly important role in our daily lives. From the oral language to the written word and printing, we have been building and expanding our capacity to provide information and present it through fictional or non-fictional narratives, allowing newfangled models through which we learn and interpret the world. As new representations transformed these new digital environments, through procedural, encyclopedic, spatial, and participative affordances, narratives have also changed and afforded a set of different scenarios, where users are given the possibility to experience and understand the same system by exploring different paths. Interactive digital narratives are open and complex works that cross different approaches, research fields, and emerging technologies, but are always shaped by interaction, from creation to reception. They also explore social, cultural, ideological, and aesthetic elements, where it is significant to comprehend how these computational formats can help us to allow new positions and points of view, modeling how we construct meaning, examining the relationship between user and technology and how human beings perceive the world. Analyzing the aesthetic qualities of the Netflix production Bandersnatch through immersion, agency, and transformation, and combining these with an analytical framework that studies the dimensions of user experience, we develop a close reading, that analyzes the development of aesthetic relations and its transformational potential in interactive digital narratives.

Keywords

EN

Interactive digital narratives; Aesthetic; Interaction; Bandersnatch

• Publisher: Fakulta masmediálnej komunikácie Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda
• Journal: Media Literacy and Academic Research
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 57-72
• Physical description: Media Literacy, Media Education
• Document type: article

Contributors

author

Monteiro Ana Catarina

• Faculdade de Engenharia Universidade do Porto