Interactive Media Narrative Research

Contemporary digital media arts are located in the intersection of Arts, Communication, Narration and Sociology. Photos and texts of the hypertext, interactive network novels are mixture in terms of style. The space of experimental video, interactive TV narrates alternately. The people-computer interaction and the people-people interaction in online games and new media arts, large quantities of narrative phenomenon of new media arts which are newly appeared, such as the media interact in cross-media propagation are needed theory carding and new law of this is needed to discover. The creation and appreciation of digital media arts is not only in succession to the law of traditional aesthetics and art creation, but also become an unique art form and language of art creation, text itself and art appreciation, also the new problems of these aspects are proposed. The interactivity is the most native feature of digital media art, the interactive narration of digital media needs its own grammar of narrate and the laws and features of narration are needed to conclusion, and by this way, we can form the systemic theory of digital media arts step by step.This essay is from the research of the phenomenon of interactive narration of digital media arts, based on the theory research at home and abroad, and it recognizes the narration styles and features of digital media arts systemically. In the framework of"grand narration", we discuss the interactive narrative form, narrative structure, narrative space, narrative features and aesthetic qualities of digital media arts, and then we try to construct the theory system of creation, communication and appreciation of digital media arts from the point of view of narration. The Chap.1 of the essay tells us that the interactive narration of digital media arts is the continuation of traditional narration from the point of view of media evolution and conversion of narration forms, and new media and skills widen the range and discourse mode of contemporary narration. Chap.2 summarizes the form of interactive media narration from the four interactive aspects of reading, audiovisual, experiment and participation, and then elaborates the features and systemic structure of interactive media narration. Chap.3 elaborates the construction of interactive media narration from the levels of the people-computer interaction, the people-people interaction and the interaction between Medias. Chap.4 analyzes the concept of time and metaphor of virtual space in the interactive media narration, and elaborates the different kinds of space-time interaction of digital hypertext. In Chap.5, from the perspective of ecology, we try to investigate that interactive media narration digests and reconstructs the social ecology, media ecology and spiritual ecology in a multi-level, and then elaborates the aesthetic reconstruction of interactive media narration from the point of view of postmodern aesthetics.