Foregrounding agency in interactive-narrative based HIV interventions

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2017

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Myers, Hadassah Esther

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The HIV epidemic has severely affected many parts of the world, especially Sub­ Saharan Africa. There is clear evidence suggesting that computer-based HIV prevention interventions are efficient. Interactive‐narrative is just beginning to be explored for Technology-Based Learning. I inspect the concept of agency afforded by interactivity and participation to determine the possibilities of interactive-narrative in HIV interventions. By scrutinising three noteworthy instances of interactive-narrative based HIV interventions, I extract evaluative criteria that this format facilitates, in the way that it can preference user choice. I conclude that while platform and content may form a significant element of a successful intervention, it is the elements of navigability, identification, co-creation, immersion and transformation that direct the agency When these are interwoven successfully, interactive-­narrative becomes

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Myers, Hadassah Esther (2017) Foregrounding agency in interactive-narrative based HIV interventions, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, <http://hdl.handle.net/10539/26467>

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