... the narrative structure and form may vary that the scripting of the texts themselves must still draw on some traditional means of storytelling from the media of cinema, television and books in order to be successful. Since the beginning of the development of hypertext, hypertext novels, essays and short stories have been created as well as specific sites ... digital storytelling depends upon the user's - the audience's - sense of narrative intelligence: "how to portray and sustain a character, how to develop a situation to a crisis and resolution, and so forth." She notes that the succe...

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