[Commlist] CFP: Digital Narrative and Interactive Storytelling for Public Engagement with Health and Science

*Call for Papers: Digital Narrative and Interactive Storytelling for 
Public Engagement with Health and Science*

Register your interest and submit abstracts at 
https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/17893 
<https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/17893>

Keywords: digital narrative, interactive storytelling, health 
communication, science communication, science education, science journalism

We are seeking papers for a joint issue with /Frontiers in Communication 
/(Science and Environmental Communication; Health Communication) and 
/Frontiers in Environmental Science /(Science and Environmental 
Communication) on digital and interactive narratives and science and 
health education and journalism. This Special Topic aims to investigate 
how digital media affordances—such as human-machine and human-human 
interactivity, multimedia capacities, dynamic visual appeal, 
playfulness, personalization, real-time immersion, multilinear 
narrative, and so on—have been and can be used to effectively 
communicate health and science issues. We would like to go beyond the 
current discourse on fake news, mis/disinformation and online 
radicalization, which recognizes the malignant effects of digital media 
on health and science affairs, to refocus on the positive affordances of 
digital media—both in direct education (e.g., museums, public 
demonstrations, school settings) and through the media (e.g., news, 
film, games)—as communication tools and techniques for health and 
science topics.

The aim of this Research Topic is, therefore, to explore the current 
state of play, as well as potential future trajectories, of digital 
narrative and storytelling in the communication of health and science 
topics. We invite scholarly investigations, including theoretically 
driven and practice-related research, on any topic relevant to that 
overall goal. Some potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  * How can science and health be effectively communicated through both
    playful and informative digital narrative and storytelling forms?
  * How can information, education and entertainment be integrated into
    digital narratives about health and science issues?
  * How do the socio-technical affordances of digital health and science
    narrative and storytelling, especially interactivity, affect
    audience experience, message cohesion, knowledge acquisition,
    emotional engagement and, ultimately, health/science literacy?
  * Can digital narrative and storytelling serve as an antidote to
    digital health and science mis/disinformation and online science
    denial more broadly, and in what way?
  * How are interactive narratives currently used for health & science
    communication and what are the social, economic and technological
    constraints on their production?


Types of Manuscripts:
● Empirical Research Papers
● Practice-led research Projects
● Reviews
● Conceptual Analysis
● Brief Research Reports
● Perspectives/Commentaries

Abstract Deadline: 31 March 2021

Full Papers: 30 Sept 2021

The full call is at https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/17893 
<https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/17893>; please register 
interest using the “Participate” button, and contact Lyle Skains 
((lskains /at/ bournemouth.ac.uk) <mailto:(lskains /at/ bournemouth.ac.uk)>) with any 
questions.

Guest Editors: R. Lyle Skains and An Nguyen, Bournemouth University

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