Drama and Digital Arts Cultures

Drama and Digital Arts Cultures is a critical guide to the new forms of playful exploration, co-creativity, and improvised performance made possible by digital networked media. It draws on examples from games, education, online media, technology-enabled performance, and the creative industries to frame our understanding of digital cultures. It challenges descriptions of drama and digital technology as binary opposites and maps common principles and practices grounded in role, embodiment, performance, play, and identity that are being amplified and enhanced by the affordances of online media. It contains extensive original research and case studies of the intersections of drama conventions and networked cultures from the US, Canada, UK, Netherlands, Singapore, and Australia. Written for scholars, educators, students, and makers, it provides a clear understanding of how young people are blending creativity and learning with the powerful and empowering conventions of drama to create new forms of multimodal and transmedia storytelling.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 27 December 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Drama and Digital Arts Cultures is a comprehensive guide to the emerging forms of playful exploration, collaborative creativity, and improvised performance enabled by digital networked media. Drawing from a wide range of examples, including games, education, online media, technology-enabled performance, and the creative industries, the book employs the principles of applied drama to provide a framework for understanding digital cultures. It explores the interconnected real-world and virtual spaces where young people create and share digital content, highlighting the fundamental applied drama conventions that infuse and activate this networked culture. By challenging the notion of drama and digital technology as opposing forces, the book maps common principles and practices grounded in role, embodiment, performance, play, and identity that are being amplified and enhanced by the affordances of online media.

The book brings together extensive original research, including interviews with game designers, media producers, educators, artists, and makers at the forefront of these new digital cultures. Young people share their own creative practices and products, offering valuable insights into a complex and evolving world shaped by digital technologies. Serving as a practical guide for scholars, educators, students, and makers across the globe

Drama and Digital Arts Cultures offers a clear understanding of how young people are blending creativity and learning with the powerful and empowering conventions of drama to create new forms of multimodal and transmedia storytelling. By examining the intersections of drama conventions and networked cultures from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Singapore, and Australia, the book provides valuable insights into the global landscape of digital arts and culture.

Weight: 506g
Dimension: 155 x 230 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781472592200