Carolyn Handler Miller is one of the pioneering writers in the field of digital media, moving into the field after a successful career in TV and feature films. As a writer of New Media content, a profession she calls "digital storytelling," Carolyn's projects include video games, virtual worlds, and Web series; intelligent toy systems; and transmedia entertainment. She was a contributing writer for the classic "Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?" series of games and wrote the interactive version of the original Toy Story movie for Disney and Pixar. She's an international speaker on New Media (Rome, Paris, the UK, South Africa, Malaysia, and Australia) and works as a consultant on digital media projects for a roster of national and international clients.

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

PART 1 New Technologies, New Creative Opportunities

Chapter 1 - Storytelling, Old and New

Chapter 2 - Backwater to Mainstream: The Growth of Digital Entertainment

PART 2 Creating Story-Rich Projects

Chapter 3 - Interactivity and Its Effects

Chapter 4 - Old Tools/New Tools

Chapter 5 - Characters, Dialogue, and Emotions

Chapter 6 - Structure in Digital Storytelling

Chapter 7 - Your Audience

Chapter 8 - Social Media and Storytelling

Chapter 9 - Guidelines: Creating a New Project

PART 3 Harnessing Digital Storytelling for Pragmatic Goals

Chapter 10 - Using Digital Storytelling to Teach, Promote, and Inform

PART 4 Media and Models: Under the Hood

Chapter 11 - Video Games

Chapter 12 - The Internet

Chapter 13 - Mobile Devices and Apps

Chapter 14 - Interactive Cinema and Interactive TV

Chapter 15 -Smart Toys and Life-Like Robots

PART 5 Immersive Media

Chapter 16 - What Are Immersive Media?

Chapter 17 - VR, AR , and Mixed Reality (XR)

Chapter 18 - Immersive Narratives and Immersive Spaces

Chapter 19 - Screen-Based Immersion

PART 6 Career Considerations

Chapter 20 - Working as a Digital Storyteller

Project Index

Subject Index