This white paper introduces Interactive Digital Narratives (IDN) as a powerful tool for tackling the complex challenges we face in today's society. In the scope of the COST Action 18230 - Interactive Narrative Design for Complexity Representation, a group of researchers dedicated to studying media, systematically selected six case studies of IDNs, including educational games, news media, and social media content, that confront and challenge the existing traditional media landscape. These case studies cover a wide range of important societal issues, such as racism, coloniality, feminist social movements, cultural heritage, war, and disinformation. By exploring this broad range of examples, we aim to demonstrate how IDN can effectively address social complexity in an interactive, participatory, and engaging manner. We encourage you to examine these case studies and discover for yourself how IDN can be used as a creative tool to address complex societal issues. This white paper might be inspiring for journalists, digital content creators, game designers, developers, educators using information and communication technologies in the classroom, or anyone interested in learning how to use IDN tools to tackle complex societal issues. In this sense, along with key scientific references, we offer key takeaways at the end of this paper that might be helpful for media practitioners at large, in two main ways: 1) Designing IDNs to address complex societal issues and 2) Using IDNs to engage audiences with complex societal issues.

翻译：本白皮书介绍了交互式数字叙事（IDN）作为应对当今社会复杂挑战的有力工具。在COST Action 18230——用于复杂性表征的交互式叙事设计——的框架下，一个专注于媒体研究的学者团队系统性地选取了六个IDN案例研究，涵盖教育游戏、新闻媒体及社交媒体内容，这些案例直面并挑战了现有传统媒体格局。这些案例涉及广泛的重要社会议题，例如种族主义、殖民性、女性主义社会运动、文化遗产、战争及虚假信息。通过探索这些多元化的案例，我们旨在展示IDN如何以交互式、参与式且引人入胜的方式有效应对社会复杂性。我们鼓励读者审视这些案例研究，自行发现IDN作为创造性工具解决复杂社会议题的潜力。本白皮书或可为记者、数字内容创作者、游戏设计师、开发者、在课堂上使用信息与通信技术的教育工作者，以及任何希望学习如何运用IDN工具应对复杂社会议题的人士提供启发。基于此，本文在提供关键科学参考文献的同时，于文末总结了核心观点，这些观点可能从以下两个主要方面对广大媒体从业者有所助益：1）设计IDN以应对复杂社会议题；2）利用IDN使受众参与复杂社会议题的讨论。