Confessions of an Aca/Fan:
Last January, I wrote the following essay to run as the foreword for a recently published collection of short fiction -- Interfictions 2: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing -- which was edited by an old friend, Delia Sherma (Read More)
Confessions of an Aca/Fan:
Circular Nexus of Screens Why does Click Click Ranger need this complicate maneuver over multiple forms of screens, and for what purpose? In order to dissect the discursive logic behind this nexus of screens, we need to under (Read More)
Confessions of an Aca/Fan:
I am offering today's post as part of the ongoing conversation I've been having throughout the semester about transmedia storytelling practices. Below you will find the first of two installments written by HyeRyoung OK, a re (Read More)
Confessions of an Aca/Fan:
I recently asked the students in my Transmedia Entertainment and Storytelling class to write short analytic papers on examples of transmedia extensions. I ended up with papers on amusement park attractions, mobisodes, web sit (Read More)
Confessions of an Aca/Fan:
Science fiction writers do not so much invent the future as they inform it. I mean inform here in two ways - first, they give us the information we need to process issues in the present moment and to therefore anticipate some (Read More)
Talent imitates, genius steals:
Watching Paint Dry from Faris Yakob on Vimeo.I'm off for a while - I'm doing a labour day long weekend one and then I'm doing a guest lecture spot for Henry Jenkins' new transmedia course at USC. In the meantime I've made thi (Read More)
Confessions of an Aca/Fan:
Last time, I focused on District 9 as adopting and expanding some core strategies of transmedia branding, linking it to True Blood, Cloverfield, and the granddaddy of them all, The Blair Witch Project. I should note that abou (Read More)
Confessions of an Aca/Fan:
"In a good summer, there's usually a movie that will come out of nowhere and completely wow us. This is a good summer, and that movie is District 9." -- Betsey Sharkey, Film Critic, LA Times. Sharkey's review of District 9 is (Read More)
Confessions of an Aca/Fan:
Last week, I shared the syllabus for my Transmedia Storytelling and Entertainment class and was blown away by the intensity of interest out there. I don't expect the same level of excitement over this class, since there are m (Read More)
NPR Topics: Books:
Have you ever wished you could e-mail or telephone a character from a book you're reading? A new "multiplatform transmedia experience" by authors J.C. Hutchins and Jordan Weisman offers readers the opportunity to do just that (Read More)
Confessions of an Aca/Fan:
Given the interest out there in transmedia or cross-media entertainment, I thought I would share the syllabus for the course I am teaching this fall at the University of Southern California. I am still shifting some details, (Read More)
mashable:
Glide OS 3.0, by TransMedia, is a popular mobile and web operating system that comes complete with applications and automatic file and application compatibility across devices.Their newest app, Glide Engage, is a mobile and w (Read More)
Confessions of an Aca/Fan:
A little over a year ago, this blog hosted an extended series of conversations between male and female academics doing work around fan studies, cult media, transmedia storytelling, and related topics. The exchanges have becom (Read More)