[Commlist] cfp Special issue of GAME n. 11/2023 on Interactive Digital Narratives: Counter-Hegemonic Narratives and Expression of Identity

Interactive Digital Narratives: Counter-Hegemonic Narratives and 
Expression of Identity

Full papers submission deadline: July 29th, 2022 August 22nd, 2022 
(EXTENDED)
https://www.gamejournal.it/n-112023-idn/ 
<https://www.gamejournal.it/n-112023-idn/>

Edited by Ilaria Mariani, Mariana Ciancia, and Judith Ackermann

The discourse on IDNs is today growingly prominent in scholarly debates 
(Koenitz, 2018; Koenitz et al., 2015) 
<https://www.zotero.org/google-docs/?EBFMTX>, fed by an unceasing 
technological evolution that opens vaste possibilities and 
potentialities with relevant implications in terms of expression – both 
from the perspective of authors and players. The eleventh issue of 
G|A|M|E digs into interactive storytelling and interactive digital 
narratives (IDNs) as ways for challenging the hegemonic narrative as a 
dominant perspective. IDNs are intended to strengthen their bonds with 
audiences which acquire possibilities of interaction with the content, 
to different extents. In particular, they surface as challenging spaces 
where to explore, discuss, and question relevant social topics.

This issue intends to further investigate how IDNs trigger engaging 
experiences promoting critically informed reflection of hegemonic 
narratives while sensitizing towards views mostly out of the mainstream. 
It means to deepen this discussion, bringing further and broader 
critical understanding on the topic, further expanding the reasoning of 
the issue 8/2019 on players’ agency. We propose to expand the 
perspective from that of the player to that of the content: from the 
significance of taking meaningful choices, seeing their implications, to 
counter-narratives and storytelling in games and interactive media as 
ways of expression.
Together with the understanding of the story, the process of 
interpreting meanings entailed in the story, its unfolding, and 
engagement possibilities can be regarded as one of the modalities 
through which the VUP participates in understanding the significance of 
the experience.

Given this premise, the tenth issue of G|A|M|E is situated at a crowded 
crossroad of Game Studies, Human-Computer Interaction, Interactive 
Digital Narratives, Digital Storytelling, Transmedia Storytelling, 
Design, Media Studies, Sociology and Anthropology.
Valuing the high interdisciplinary nature of the topic, we aim at 
contributions addressing IDNs as counter-hegemonic narratives from 
different and even cross-sector scientific perspectives.

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

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    IDNs as narrative explorations in the intersectional framework,
    allowing thinking intersectionally with/through narrative methodologies
  *
    Identification and/or projection, immersion and critical
    dis-immersion Weidle (2018) > friction and estrangement due to bring
    up topics which
  *
    Liminality and the notion of being in-between: theories and
    contemporary practices
  *
    Vulnerability as making the user exposed to perspectives that are
    emotionally challenging and destabilizing
  *
    Exploring experientiality, between bodily, digital, and hybrid presence
  *
    Empowerment of people to share stories and perspectives by creating
    IDNs and appropriating the tools needed for this.
  *
    Embedding ethical, moral, and social issues in IDN applications
  *
    Ontological and ethical reflections in addressing social issues and
    expressing identity
  *
    Strategies and technologies for user engagement in stories
  *
    Narrative AI and procedural generation in IDN
  *
    Impact on culture and society and experience evaluation, such as
    measuring cognitive and affective empathy


We therefore invite scholars from all fields to submit full papers of no 
more than 40000 characters (references included, APA 7th style) by 
Friday July 29th, 2022Monday August 22nd, 2022to 
(ilaria1.mariani /at/ polimi.it) <mailto:(ilaria1.mariani /at/ polimi.it)>, 
(mariana.ciancia /at/ polimi.it) <mailto:(mariana.ciancia /at/ polimi.it)>, 
(judith.ackermann /at/ fh-potsdam.de) <mailto:(j.ackermann /at/ fh-potsdam.de)>, and 
(gameitalianjournal /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(gameitalianjournal /at/ gmail.com)>.
Papers will undergo a double-blind peer review process. Accepted 
contributions will be published in a 2023 issue of G|A|M|E – Games as 
Art, Media, Entertainment.

Notification of acceptance to the issue will be communicated by October 
14th, 2022. Authors of successful proposals will then be asked to submit 
the revised full article by January 31, 2023.

Timeline:

  *
    July 29th, 2022: Full papers submission deadline
  *
    August 22nd, 2022: Full papers submission deadline (EXTENDED)
  *
    Notification of acceptance/rejection sent to authors: October 14th,
    2022:
  *
    Deadline for edited papers: January 31, 2023
  *
    Publication: End of February 2023
No payment from the authors will be required.


Full CFP and the layout for the submission can be found here: 
https://www.gamejournal.it/n-112023-idn/ 
<https://www.gamejournal.it/n-112023-idn/>

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