5th Edition
Digital Storytelling A Creator's Guide to Interactive Entertainment, Volume I
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Preface
PART ONE: NEW TECHNOLOIES, NEW CREATIVE OPPORTUNIES
1. Storytelling, Old and New
2. Backwater to Mainstream: The Growth of Digital Entertainment
3. The Creative Promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
PART TWO: CREATING STORY-RICH PROJECTS
4. Interactivity and Its Effects
5. Old Tools/New Tools
6. Characters, Dialogue and Emotion
7. Structure in Digital Storytelling
8. Your Audience
9. Social Media and Storytelling
10. Creating New Projects: The Development Process
PART THREE: HARNASSING DIGITAL STORYTELLING FOR PRAGMATIC GOALS
11. Using Digital Storytelling to Teach and Train
12. Using Digital Storytelling for Promotion and Advertising
13. Using Digital Storytelling to Inform
Afterword
Glossary
Index
Biography
Carolyn Handler Miller is one of the pioneering writers in the field of digital storytelling, where she has contributed to over 50 projects as a writer, narrative designer, and consultant. Her works in emergent media include not only immersive environments but also video games, interactive stories for the Web, intelligent toy systems, and transmedia entertainment. In addition, Carolyn’s credits include writing for TV (where one of her scripts earned her an Emmy nomination), feature films, and books.
"In this new edition of Digital Storytelling, Carolyn Handler Miller has continued to provide an invaluable guide to the complex world of where digital technology meets storytelling. Through a unique mix of interviews, research, and her own experience as a creative practitioner, Miller brings fresh insight and perspective across this broad and ever-evolving field. Digital Storytelling is hugely readable, well-organised, and an excellent resource for everyone engaged in or simply interested in finding new ways to tell stories."
– Kate Pullinger, Professor of Creative Writing and Digital Media at Bath Spa University
Kate Pullinger is a writer who works across multiple forms, including the novel, opera, and digital storytelling. In 2020, she was awarded the Electronic Literature Organisation's Marjorie C Luesebrink's Career Achievement Award. Pullinger is a Professor of Creative Writing and Digital Media at Bath Spa University, England, and was recently made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in London, UK.
