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，致力于媒体研究的学者团队系统选取了六项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。所选案例覆盖种族主义、殖民性、女权社会运动、文化遗产、战争及虚假信息等重要社会议题。通过探索这些多元化案例，我们旨在展示IDN如何以互动化、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，自行发现IDN作为创造性工具处理复杂社会问题的潜力。本白皮书或可为记者、数字内容创作者、游戏设计师、开发者、课堂中使用信息通信技术的教育工作者，以及任何有兴趣学习如何运用IDN工具应对复杂社会议题的人士提供启发。基于此，本文件在关键科学参考文献之外，于文末提供了两大实用要点，供广大媒体从业者参考：1）设计用于应对复杂社会议题的IDN；2）利用IDN吸引受众关注复杂社会议题。