ARDIN - Association for Research in Digital Interactive Narratives

Act fast - There are still some places available at the ARDIN summer school - A five-day experience for graduate students on representing complex Cultural Heritage with Interactive Digital Narratives; 23rd to 27th July 2024

Improve your academic skills, earn ETCS, network and and spend time on the beautiful island of Malta!

Cultural Heritage is used as the exemplar, but the training school is useful for any area or discipline concerned with representing complex issues.

More info and application here: https://training.ardin.online/taime-walker-phd-summer-school-2024

What comes after the announcement of a new journal? The call for papers for the second issue!

The second issue will have the topic of "Interactive Narratives for Public Communication, Trust Building, and Decision-Making"

Deadline: September 1, 2024

https://journal.ardin.online/cfp-vol2

The next general issue will be issue 3 with a deadline of March 1st, 2025

It takes the work of many to create a journal. Meet the great team of the Journal of Interactive Narrative, the editorial board and the advisory board.

Read more on the composition of the current boards and how we plan to expand in the editorial:

https://journal.ardin.online/issue1-volume1-editorial

BIG NEWS: We're overjoyed to announce the first issue of the Journal of Interactive Narrative.

https://journal.ardin.online

Below is the full press release:

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24 May 2024
Amsterdam/Atlanta Association for Research in Digital Interactive Narratives, https://ardin.online

For immediate release

Introducing the Journal of Interactive Narrative - The First of Its Kind

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Journal for Interactive Narrative Research (JIN) - the world's first academic journal dedicated entirely to the growing field of interactive narratives. As storytelling evolves in our digital age, JIN will provide a vital platform for researchers, creators, and scholars to share groundbreaking work at the intersection of narratology, game design, artificial intelligence, media studies, education, fine art, and human-computer interaction.

The journal is available here: https://journal.ardin.online/

Open Access Diamond

Articles in JIN are published under the Open Access Diamond model, which means there are no fees to process articles and contents can be accessed at no cost on the journal’s website. Diamond Open Access articles are licensed under Creative Commons Licenses (CC) (see the copyright notice on the website for details), which means they can be freely shared so that other people can build their work based on them.

The Journal of Interactive Narrative is published in collaboration with ETC Press/Carnegie Mellon University, a leading academic open access publisher.

What Are Interactive Narratives?

Interactive digital narratives blend traditional storytelling with digital technologies, allowing the audience to actively influence and shape the narrative experience. From interactive fiction to narrative-driven video games and interactive documentaries, augmented/virtual reality experiences, and beyond - interactive narratives open up vast new creative possibilities for immersive and participatory storytelling across media. The journal also covers analog interactive narratives, e.g. narrative-focused board games and LARPs (live action role-playing).

Until now, there has been no dedicated peer-reviewed journal focused on this rapidly growing interdisciplinary field. JIN aims to fill that gap, fostering dialogue, criticism, and knowledge-sharing among the diverse communities exploring the future of interactive storytelling.

Innovative Digital Publishing

What sets JIN apart is our innovative digital publishing model that goes beyond just disseminating written research. Each issue will embed fully playable interactive narrative experiences and artifacts directly into the journal articles themselves.

Authors can submit interactive fiction, narrative games, VR/AR pieces, and other interactive works to be included alongside their traditional research papers and critiques. Readers will be able to experience these interactive narratives first-hand as an integral part of the academic discourse. This is a much overdue advance in interactive scholarship.

The journal will also feature IDNs (interactive digital narratives) in each issue to celebrate such works as a full-fledged artistic expression. The first issue features Figurski at Findhorn, a work by Richard Holeton.

Open Call for Submissions

JIN invites researchers, creators, artists, game designers, writers, and scholars from all relevant disciplines to submit their work for consideration. We welcome long-form research articles, critical essays, interactive narrative pieces, multimedia works, and more.

Our editorial board comprises leading experts and pioneering voices spanning digital media theory, computational narratology, game studies, and creative writing. We are committed to upholding rigorous academic standards while nurturing innovative ideas at the cutting edge of interactive storytelling.

The inaugural issue of the Journal for Interactive Narrative is available now at https://journal.ardin.online/. The Call for Papers for the second issue is available here: https://journal.ardin.online/cfp-vol2

Join us as we forge new frontiers for interactive narratives as an artistic and professional practice as well as a growing scholarly field. The future of storytelling is interactive - let's explore it together through JIN.

Contact:
Hartmut Koenitz, Editor-in-Chief
[email protected]

There are still some spots available in the ARDIN summer school - available to current PhD students, but also Postdocs and advanced Masters' students.

https://training.ardin.online/taime-walker-phd-summer-school-2024

DOIs from ARDIN - something to think about...

Preprints, talks, datasets, white papers....

It is with great pleasure that ARDIN announces it's first PhD Summer training school, hosted at Saint Martin’s Institute of Higher Education in Malta July 23-27.

The training school is based on the successful COST Action INDCOR training school in previous years.

It's a five-day summer school for PhD students on representing complex Cultural Heritage with Interactive Digital Narratives which make full use of the rich cultural history of Malta.

There is a great group of trainers:

Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari (Stockholm University)
Angeliki Chrysanthi (University of the Aegean)
Lissa Holloway-Attaway (University of Skövde)
Jonathan Barbara (Saint Martin's Institute of Higher Education)
Hartmut Koenitz (Södertörn University & University of Amsterdam)

Apply now - limited places available!

https://training.ardin.online/taime-walker-phd-summer-school-2024

Call for the Doctoral Consortium is out, deadline September 10

Some funding for on-site participation is available via ARDIN

https://icids2023.ardin.online/call-for-participation-in-the-icids-doctoral-consortium

A bit over two weeks left until the deadline

write, write, write

PSA: Some maintenance on the ARDIN website required password resets for members. If you got a notification, you can reset your passwords yourself on the login screen (link in the upper right part of the home page)

ARDIN Welcome! This is the home of the Association for Research in Digital Interactive Narratives, a community of academics and practitioners concerned with the advancement of all forms of interactive narrative – including narrative video games, interactive documentaries & video, journalistic interactiv...

The Call for Papers for ICIDS 2023 is out now - start writing :-)

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will be in Kobe, Japan

ICIDS 2022 registration is now live:

Registration - ICIDS 2022 Please be sure to select the correct registration option for you. Onsite means physical attendance. Please consider the conference dinner option and buy extra tickets if you'd like to bring a guest You will receive two (2) emails at the end of the registrations process: First email with your ticket(...

deadline is extended to July 30!

ICIDS 2022 website is life: https://icids2022.ardin.online

ICIDS 2022 – International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling ICIDS 2022 December 4 - 7, 2022UC Santa Cruz Call for Papers ICIDS is the premier conference for researchers and practitioners concerned with studying digital interactive forms of narrative from a variety of perspectives, including theoret...

PSA: the online social today starts at 4 pm CET

Dear all,

Due to several panelists' health-related issues, we are postponing today's panel to next week, Wednesday, March 2.

Apologies and we will see you next week.

Best,

Sarah & Hartmut

Announcement regarding ICIDS 2021 and ICIDS 2022

With COVID-related restrictions still in effect at UC Santa Cruz, it became increasingly unlikely that we would be able to offer an in-situ conference experience for our community in California this year. While last year’s virtual edition was testimony to the potential of well-organized virtual meetings, we are keenly aware of the value of in-person encounters and the prevalence of “Zoom fatigue”.
After considering a range of options, we approached the hosts of ICIDS 2022 and are now happy to announce a solution we feel serves our community best: ICIDS 2021 and 2022 will exchange locations with most of the organizing team staying in place. ICIDS 2021 will take place with in-situ and virtual attendance options on December 7-10 in Tallinn, Estonia, co-chaired by Michael Mateas and David Lamas, while ICIDS 2022 will take place in fall 2022 in Santa Cruz.
The deadlines for contributions will be extended by four weeks, to 23 July 2021.
Please see the ICIDS 2021 website for details: https://ardin.online/.../icids.../icids-2021-tallinn/

Sincerely,
The ARDIN executive board and ICIDS 2021/2022 chairs

Cristina Sylla, University of Minho, CIEC/ ITI/LARSyS, http://mobeybou.com has now joined the lineup for next week's ARDIN online social. Cristina has graciously agreed to provide expert feedback for Michael Schlauch's talk.

This is a service we want to continue for graduate students that they can request expert feedback for their work.

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The call for papers for ICIDS 2021 is out!

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