Research at the Center for Digital Narrative

The CDN is organized around six research nodes, and has a transdisciplinary project portfolio.

Electronic Literature

The objective of this research is to develop an innovative critical and methodological apparatus and vocabulary to systematically analyze and compare different forms of digital narrative.

Computational Narrative Systems

The objective of this research is to combine methods from narrative theory, computational creativity, and computer science to explore and develop model computational narrative systems.

Computer Games and Interactive Digital Narrative

The object of this research is to understand the functions of agency, materiality, interactivity, and play as elements that shape our experience of algorithmic narratives.

Social Media and Network Narratives

The objective of this research is to discover how social narratives emerge from fragmented contributions on the internet and how these are influenced by individuals, organizations, and algorithms.

Extending Digital Narrative

The objective of this research is to explore the narrative potential of emerging technologies to understand how they will shape future storytelling genres.

Artistic Integrated Research

The objective is to produce experimental artistic research exploring emerging forms of digital narrative, to foster artistic research across the nodes and develop new ways of integrating this research into cultural contexts.

CDN Project Portfolio

List of projects affiliated with the Center for Digital Narrative.

20.12.2023