Interactive storytelling can be a tricky thing to plan for. This video, made for students on the MA in Data Journalism at Birmingham City University, explores different genres of interactivity — from quizzes and image maps to ‘choose your own adventure’ interactives and newsgames — and the different considerations when planning a story within each of those genres. You can find a related video on concepts of interactivity here.

The video refers to a number of examples — you can find links to those below.

Links mentioned:

• Twitter thread – Choose your own crisis of masculinity novel
• A Better World
• Terence Eden’s ergodic Twitter story
• BBC Glastonbury’s ergodic Twitter story
• FiveThirtyEight: When Women Run
• Where Is Breast Cancer?
• Every Shot Kobe Bryant Ever Took
• Interactive documentary guide
• Bandersnatch
• Use of interactivity for Channel 4’s Humans
• 101 East investigates Malaysia’s underground baby trade
• How AI will change storytelling and become the next great art form
• Her Story
• Manovich (1999) Database as a Symbolic Form
• Hamilton (2011) Zombies and Stories

This video is shared as part of a series of video posts.