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“面向复杂性表征的交互式叙事设计”框架下，一群专注于媒介研究的学者系统筛选了六个IDN案例——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。这些案例研究覆盖广泛的重要社会议题，包括种族主义、殖民性、女性社会运动、文化遗产、战争及虚假信息。通过探究这一多元案例集合，我们旨在展示IDN如何以交互式、参与式及引人入胜的方式有效应对社会复杂性。我们鼓励您检视这些案例，自行发现IDN如何作为创造性工具解决复杂社会问题。本白皮书对记者、数字内容创作者、游戏设计师、开发者、在课堂上使用信息通信技术的教育者，或任何希望了解如何运用IDN工具应对复杂社会议题的人士具有启发意义。基于此，我们在文末附上关键科学参考文献及核心要点，可为广大媒体从业者提供两大方面的实用指导：1）设计用于应对复杂社会议题的IDN；2）利用IDN引导受众参与复杂社会议题。