Extending Digital
Narrative
Exploring the narrative potential of emerging technologies to understand how they will shape future storytelling genres.
Extending Digital
About the Research
Innovation & Challenge
The rapid pace of technological development enables innovative digital narrative and storytelling methods, presenting both opportunities and challenges to society.
What is XDN?
The Extending Digital Narrative (XDN) is a research project and area at CDN exploring emerging technologies as new environments for storytelling. These include large language model AI systems, virtual and augmented reality, conversational interfaces, and future platforms.
Intersection
Modes of digital narrative are distinct yet intersecting. AI now runs through all emerging narrative forms: from smart speakers to next-generation immersive narratives featuring responsive dialogue engines.
Methodology
We document and analyze key works, develop creative experimental works to test affordances, and study impacts on audiences to understand the future of narrative in digital environments.
Outputs
We produce both scientific research and creative outputs that explore the potentialties of emerging platforms, and produce public-facing research outputs, such as the "More Than Meets AI" exhibitions.