Transmedia critical: empirical investigations into multiplatform and collaborative storytelling

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• dc.contributor.author Scolari, Carlos Alberto, 1963-ca
• dc.contributor.author Ibrus, Indrekca
• dc.date.accessioned 2016-03-18T10:12:20Z
• dc.date.available 2016-03-18T10:12:20Z
• dc.date.issued 2014ca
• dc.description.abstract A decade has passed since the introduction of “transmedia storytelling,” a concept that refers to forms of multiplatform and collaborative storytelling. This special section opens an avenue for critical accounts of the associated narrative phenomena, social experiences, and conceptual positions. It suggests that it is time to move away from celebrating instances of transmedia productions as poetically fascinating outcomes of contemporary media changes, or as enablers of new economic possibilities for media industries, or of participatory opportunities for audiences. Instead, it calls for investigations of transmedia productions as contested phenomena—sources of contemporary cultural and social complexities—including new forms of scarcities, inequalities, and power struggles./n/nThis special section emphasizes empirical studies of situated differences of how transmedial content is produced, used and interpreted in various contexts and by different actors. The articles present case studies from several countries on aspects of transmedia content production, associated user studies, and predecessors of various modern forms of transmediation (that too often are celebrated for their unprecedented newness). The section is explicitly interdisciplinary and builds on several established research traditions (e.g., cultural studies, political economy, semiotics, and narratology). With an introduction by Ibrus and Scolari, these works attest to the importance of a cross-disciplinary dialogue on transmedia communications as social, economic, and textual phenomena.
• dc.description.sponsorship The preparation of this article was supported by the European Union through its European Regional/nDevelopment Fund (Centre of Excellence in Cultural Theory), as well as by research grant ERMOS79,/nfinanced by the Estonian Science Foundation and co-funded by Marie Curie Actions.
• dc.format.mimetype application/pdfca
• dc.identifier.citation Scolari CA, Ibrus I. Transmedia critical: empirical investigations into multiplatform and collaborative storytelling. International Journal of Communication. 2014; 8: 2191–200.ca
• dc.identifier.issn 1932-8036ca
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/26011
• dc.language.iso engca
• dc.publisher University of Southern California. Annenberg Center for Communicationca
• dc.relation.ispartof International Journal of Communication. 2014; 8: 2191–200.
• dc.rights © 2014 (Carlos A. Scolari & Indrek Ibrus). Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd). Available at http://ijoc.org.ca
• dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessca
• dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/
• dc.subject.keyword Transmedia
• dc.subject.keyword Critical studies
• dc.subject.keyword Empirical research
• dc.subject.keyword Transmedia audiences
• dc.subject.keyword Transmedia production
• dc.subject.keyword Transmedia archaeology
• dc.title Transmedia critical: empirical investigations into multiplatform and collaborative storytellingca
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/articleca
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