Digital narratology
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Digital Narratology is the study of narratology
in the new media forms that have arisen with the advent of computer technology. This area of study looks at hypertext novels such as Victory Garden by Stuart Moulthrop
, network fiction (online) such as 253 (book)
by Geoff Ryman
Text based interactive fiction The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game)
publish by Infocom, MUD
's, blogs, video games and alternate reality game
s. A large part of the area involves comparing the new forms to old and seeing how things such as the ability to link pages in a non-sequential manner changes the narrative and that a different readers can have wildly different experience of the same piece of work.
Narratology
Narratology denotes both the theory and the study of narrative and narrative structure and the ways that these affect our perception. While in principle the word may refer to any systematic study of narrative, in practice its usage is rather more restricted. It is an anglicisation of French...
in the new media forms that have arisen with the advent of computer technology. This area of study looks at hypertext novels such as Victory Garden by Stuart Moulthrop
Stuart Moulthrop
Stuart Moulthrop is an innovator of electronic literature and hypertext fiction, both as a theoretician and as a writer. He is author of the hypertext fiction works Victory Garden , which was on the front-page of the New York Times Book Review in 1993, Reagan Library , and Hegirascope , amongst...
, network fiction (online) such as 253 (book)
253 (book)
253, or Tube Theatre, is a novel by Geoff Ryman, originally created as a website in 1996, then published as a paper book titled 253: The Print Remix in 1998. The print version won a Philip K. Dick Award.-Synopsis:...
by Geoff Ryman
Geoff Ryman
Geoffrey Charles Ryman is a writer of science fiction, fantasy and surrealistic or "slipstream" fiction.Ryman currently lectures in Creative Writing for University of Manchester's English Department. His most recent full-length novel, The King's Last Song, is set in Cambodia, both at the time of...
Text based interactive fiction The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (computer game)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an interactive fiction computer game based on the comedic science fiction series of the same name. It was designed by series creator Douglas Adams and Infocom's Steve Meretzky, and was first released in 1984 for the Apple II, Macintosh, Commodore 64, DOS,...
publish by Infocom, MUD
MUD
A MUD , pronounced , is a multiplayer real-time virtual world, with the term usually referring to text-based instances of these. MUDs combine elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, player versus player, interactive fiction, and online chat...
's, blogs, video games and alternate reality game
Alternate reality game
An alternate reality game is an interactive narrative that uses the real world as a platform, often involving multiple media and game elements, to tell a story that may be affected by participants' ideas or actions....
s. A large part of the area involves comparing the new forms to old and seeing how things such as the ability to link pages in a non-sequential manner changes the narrative and that a different readers can have wildly different experience of the same piece of work.