Person: Matuszkiewicz, Kai
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Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Postdoc) und Koordinator des Open-Access-Fachrepositoriums "media/rep/" (Institut für Medienwissenschaft)
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Matuszkiewicz
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Kai
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- ArticleWer erzeugt die Geschichte? Mediale und personale Narrationen in digitalen SpielenMatuszkiewicz, Kai (2017) , S. 1-19
- ArticleAt the threshold into new worlds: Virtual reality game worlds beyond narrativesMatuszkiewicz, Kai; Weidle, Franziska (2019) , S. 5-23Virtual and Augmented Reality systems are becoming increasingly popular in our everyday lives. Although these systems are extraordinary examples of the new role played by the human body in digital media ecologies much of the academic scholarship conducted in this area tends to interpret such phenomena from a narrativist standpoint. Such approaches often overlook the essential characteristics of non-narrative media. As a counter-strategy, we propose virtual fictionality – a concept emphasising central aspects of worldliness in VR-based works that lie beyond the narrative paradigm. The aim of the paper is to outline virtual fictionality as a particular world-making strategy of digital games that turns players into configurators.
- ArticleInternarrativität. Überlegungen zum Zusammenspiel von Interaktivität und Narrativität in digitalen SpielenMatuszkiewicz, Kai (2014) , S. 1-23This essay introduces a new theoretical approach for the analysis of digital games with a hybrid structure between interactivity and narrativity called “internarrativity”. The aim of this model is to enable an appropriate examination of the synergies of what may be characterized as “symbiotic internarrative digital games”. Internarrativity as a theoretical concept is derived from sociology, media and communication studies, literary studies and digital game studies. The model consists of three interconnected and progressively concertizing planes: internarrativity, internarrative and internarration. Following explication of the model,a short example is discussed, rendering the presence and function of internarratives in current digital games visible through focusing on the zombie apocalypse and the superhero story and their use in internarrative digital games. The argumentation closes with a glimpse of the potential as well as some possible limitations of the model of internarrativity.