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Interacting With Story: Examining Transportation into Video Game Narrative

Ahn, Changhyun
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1431608782

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2015, Master of Applied Communication Theory and Methodology, Cleveland State University, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.
It has been over ten years since Green and Brock’s (2000) initial study of transportation theory; however, there is no research up to date on examining and comparing newly emerging, interactive video game narrative to written texts and films. Drawing upon Green and Jenkins’s (2014) newest conceptual work of interactive narrative, this study examined how interactive narrative brings difference in degree of transportation and character identification. Specifically, a quasi-experiment was conducted to compare how the 40 participants responded to either interactive or traditional narratives. The results of the experiment demonstrated that experience taking and need for cognition were significant predictor of transportation and character identification; it was also found that valence was significant predictor of character identification. No difference were found between interactive narrative and traditional narrative on transportation; however, difference between interactive narrative and traditional narrative on character identification was near significant, along with finding significant correlation between transportation and character identification. These findings suggest that character identification could be more important when audiences process interactive narrative. This study is the initial attempt to test Green and Jenkins’s (2014) conceptual work of interactive narrative and transportation especially in video game context. The findings of this study could contribute to previous video game studies, in which the concept of `interactivity’ was rarely defined in terms of narrative structure.
Cheryl Bracken, PhD (Committee Chair)
Richard Perloff, PhD (Committee Member)
Robert Whitbred, PhD (Committee Member)
Communication
transportation; interactive narrative; video game; interactivity

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  • Ahn, C. (2015). Interacting With Story: Examining Transportation into Video Game Narrative [Master's thesis, Cleveland State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1431608782

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Ahn, Changhyun. Interacting With Story: Examining Transportation into Video Game Narrative. 2015. Cleveland State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1431608782.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Ahn, Changhyun. "Interacting With Story: Examining Transportation into Video Game Narrative." Master's thesis, Cleveland State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1431608782

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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