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Decolonizing IDN Pedagogy From and with Global South: A Cross-Cultural Case Study

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2023)

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This paper presents a pedagogical activity with 120 students from two higher education institutions, one in the Global South and the other in the Global North. The objective was to incorporate decolonial thinking into analysing IDN artifacts through cross-cultural dialogue and collaboration. To achieve this, students were randomly divided into 20 groups comprising individuals from both countries and were assigned to work together across different time zones and geography. Students were prepared with an introduction to decolonial thinking and interactive digital narratives (IDNs). For the cross-cultural analysis, students used a methodology that merges the SPP model, the transformation aspect of IDN user experience, and the decoding position to reflect on how the artifacts perpetuate coloniality. Our results indicate that cross-cultural dialogue enabled students to counter colonial norms of universalism and Eurocentrism in IDNs through collaboration and interaction across the globe.

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  1. Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia

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  2. ITI-LARSyS, IST, University of Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal

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  3. Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden

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Reyes, M.C., Silva, C., Koenitz, H. (2023). Decolonizing IDN Pedagogy From and with Global South: A Cross-Cultural Case Study. In: Holloway-Attaway, L., Murray, J.T. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14383. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47655-6_9

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