Announcements

CFP-Special Issue: Autonomy In and Through Interactive Digital Storytelling

2025-10-20

Sponsored by Digital Storytelling and Innovation Network, this CFP explores how autonomy, agency, and authorship are negotiated in IDN across human–machine co-creativity, distributed cognition, and human/nonhuman assemblages amid generative AI and infrastructural shifts (big data, cloud, blockchain, LLMs). It welcomes research-creation, reflective practice, and critical scholarship spanning interactive film, games, participatory theatre, VR/AR, and more.

Editorial: Building a Home for Advanced Interactive Scholarship

2025-07-23

The Editor-in-Chief Editor, Hartmut Koenitz, discusses the ideas and efforts that went into the launch of the Journal for Interactive Narrative. It has been quite a journey from the first idea for this journal to the first issue of the Journal of Interactive Narrative, which you are reading now. In 2018, I presented a paper at ICIDS, reflecting on the status of the study of Interactive Digital Narratives as a discipline. I concluded that much progress had been made since the first doctoral thesis on the topic, yet a journal dedicated to the topic was a key missing element.

From Concept to Reality: Launching a Journal for Interactive Narrative

2025-07-22

The Managing Editor, Joshua A. Fisher, discusses the development of the Journal of Interactive Narrative. In the summer of 2021, Hartmut Koenitz and Frank Nack approached me about establishing a journal for the Association for Research in Digital Interactive Narrative (ARDIN). They presented a challenge: to create an academic platform that not only discussed but also embodied the interactive narratives at the heart of our field. 

Call for Papers: Interactive Narratives for Public Communication, Trust Building, and Decision-Making

2025-07-22

The Journal of Interactive Narrative Research advances the understanding, design, and application of interactive narratives. The journal is predicated on the interdisciplinary nature of interactive narratives. It is a home for research and practical work that intersects traditional academic disciplines and artistic forms. In addition, the journal is focused on the development of novel, interactive formats to overcome existing limitations in the representation of interactive scholarship.