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Interactive stories have a politics that leans democratic. This politics hinges on the ability of the audience to interrupt and pose a question or ask for an alternative narrative. The history of democratic interactive storytelling in multiple media is briefly outlined. The “paradox of democracy,” analogous to the “narrative paradox,” is introduced and a challenge for the design of interactive democratic narrative systems – agency with accountability -- is presented by shortly examining two implemented systems.
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Sack, W. (2022). Interactive Storytelling and the Paradox of Democracy. In: Vosmeer, M., Holloway-Attaway, L. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13762. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22298-6_25
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