nam 22 uu 4500 duepublico_mods_00000153 duepublico_mods_00000153 ger DE-601 rda ger 800 sdnb Chew, Evelyn Author aut The Impact of Interactivity on Truth Claims in Life Stories Chew, Evelyn;Mitchell, Alex text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Autobiographies, biographies, and documentary life stories all claim to tell a ‘true life story’. Yet each life story genre highlights different aspects of the truth. In autobiography, the personal subjective truth of self-identity is foregrounded. In biography, it is the seemingly objective truth about someone’s life asserted by another person, whose mediation introduces an element of subjectivity. In a documentary life story testimonial, the credibility of the objective truth presented is of utmost importance, but so is the subjective life experience that undergirds it. In this article we ask: How is interactivity exploited to construct the truth claims in interactive life stories across genres? By comparing three interactive nonfiction life stories – an autobiography, Fitting the Pattern (Wilks 2008), the biographical docugame The Cat and the Coup (Brinson / ValaNejad 2011), and the documentary Alma (Fougère / Dewever-Plana 2012) –, we explore how the aspects of truth most relevant to each life story genre are foregrounded using interactivity. article Mitchell, Alex Author aut Fakultät für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften DIEGESIS Jg. 4 (2015) H. 2 host institution his 4:2<1 Fakultät für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften, DIEGESIS Diegesis 2195-2116 duepublico_mods_00000079 https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/receive/duepublico_mods_00000153 object in context https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/duepublico_derivate_00000531/dej15040201.pdf raw object https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/rsc/thumbnail/duepublico_mods_00000153.png preview https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/receive/duepublico_mods_00000153 uri