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Mapping Trends in Interactive Non-fiction through the Lenses of Interactive Documentary

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Interactive digital media have greatly affected the logics of production, exhibition and reception of non-fiction audiovisual works, leading to the emergence of a new area called "interactive non-fiction". One of its key points is that it can deal with factual material in such a way that it influences and transforms the real world around us. The present work gives a brief insight into the interactive non-fiction area and presents some trends/hypotheses obtained from studying one of its main formats: interactive documentary. The aim is to introduce new dynamics, logics and trends that could shape the interactive non-fiction field in forthcoming years.

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  1. Konekto, Universitat de Vic-Universitat Central de Catalunya, Spain

    Arnau Gifreu-Castells

  2. Open Documentary Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

    Arnau Gifreu-Castells

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  1. Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore, BLK AS6 #3-22, 11 Computng Drive, 117416, Singapore, Singapore

    Alex Mitchell

  2. NYU Game Center, 2 Metrotech Center, New York University, Room 854, 11201, Brooklyn, NY, USA

    Clara Fernández-Vara

  3. School of Computer Science, Reykjavik University, Menntavegur 1, Nauthólsvik, 101, Reykjavik, Iceland

    David Thue

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Gifreu-Castells, A. (2014). Mapping Trends in Interactive Non-fiction through the Lenses of Interactive Documentary. In: Mitchell, A., Fernández-Vara, C., Thue, D. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8832. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12337-0_16

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