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Opinion: Facts are meaningless

I recently made a controversial statement during a presentation: facts are meaningless. The audience responded with nervous laughter, probably wondering how to digest this remark. But in our business of working with social change, this landscape means that we need to consider our work in this context.
 
When I talk about meaningless, I actually mean “meaning less.” In other words, facts today have lost their value. When someone states a fact, and that fact is contrary to our understanding, it would seem logical that we would change our opinion. Instead, we are seeing something far from that. Facts do not have an impact. Why?

White Paper: Interactive narrative - An emerging form

In a sense, all narrative is interactive. When someone is watching a film or reading a novel, they are interpreting the story and thus co-creating its meaning. Online, an interactive narrative is a form of narrative where there is a higher level of interaction than most narrative forms, between the author’s creation and the viewer/user. Whether or not this makes an interactive narrative a “good” story is another article. The purpose of today is to discuss and identify some physical forms of interactive narrative that can be experienced through digital media, given the emerging form.

 

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