增强型电子书的支链叙事:支链结构与故事建构
2018-07-07林子琪
林子琪
[摘 要] 探讨支链叙事这一随着计算机技术和数字媒体技术的发展应运而生的叙事模式。指出增强型电子书由于支持更多丰富的多媒体元素嵌入并发展出了更丰富的内容形式,因此为支链叙事的应用提供了可能。论述支链叙事的形式及这一形式之表里,即故事建构和支链结构。以两本增强型电子书作为案例,总结和分析基础支链结构、折返式支链结构和前置因素影响下的折返式支链结构3种支链结构,以及由作者和读者共同完成的故事建构过程:作者负责情节设定和分支点设置,读者进行分支点选择完成叙事。
[关键词] 电子书 支链叙事 增强型电子书 数字叙事 数字出版
[中图分类号] G237 [文献标识码] A [文章编号] 1009-5853 (2018) 03-0091-06
Branching Narrative in Enhanced E-books: Branching Structure and Story Construction
Lin Ziqi
(School of Journalism and Communication,Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084)
[Abstract] Indicate that branching narrative as a kind of narrative modes, emerges along with the development of information technology and digital media technology. Point out that the enhanced e-books have offered possibility of utility for branching narrative, as they support more multimedia facilities to be embedded and develop more content forms. The form of branching narrative, which includes story construction as the outside manifestation and branching structure as the innner, is the focus of this discussion. Two enhanced e-books are taken as cases to explore three kinds of branching structure, namely the tree branching structure, the foldback structure and the co-influenced foldback structure. Demonstrate that the story construction process is completed via the collaboration between authors and readers: while the authors take responsibility of plot-setting and point-setting, readers accomplish the narrative by choosing at the points.
[Key words] E-books Branching narrative Enhanced e-books Digital narrative Digital publishing
電子书是传统纸质书在数字媒体环境下的一种迁移和延伸,在叙事模式上部分地继承了传统线性叙事的特点。其中,EPUB 3.0电子书由于可包含文本、说明、漫画、视频、音频、声效和互动[1]等多媒体元素,这些元素的加入增强了电子书的阅读体验,所以EPUB 3.0电子书也被称为“增强型电子书”[2]。这种电子书有更强的互动性,更注重运用多媒体手段创造沉浸式的阅读体验,因而具备了承载支链叙事的能力。
读者参与已经成为数字媒体叙事的重要组成部分,而读者参与必然引起互动的发生。支链叙事就是互动性较强的一种叙事模式[3]。支链叙事是线性叙事在数字媒体环境下发展的一种形式。由于数字媒体构建的三维叙事空间中会出现多条时间轴,线性叙事演变出一些新的线性叙事方式,即所谓后线性叙事[4]。……
