Innovation Ecotones

An ecotone — literally, a place where ecologies are in tension — is a transitional area between…

Henry Jenkins interviews me about Reality Ends Here

Special thanks to Henry Jenkins for conducting a wide-ranging two-part interview with Simon Wiscombe, Tracy…

Radiation cats and atomic priesthoods: the Human Interference Task Force

The question of how to mark the places where we store nuclear waste such that people in the distant future won’t…

16 June 2014: Tunisian transmedia campaign

16 Juin 2014 is a participatory transmedia event that took place in February of 2011. The project engaged the…

Spontaneous transmedia combustion: collaborative storytelling, Cooks Source, and the Talking Dead

Online collaborative storytelling is an idea that people seem to get excited about in waves. At the peak of a…

Transmedia: New Platforms – The Games of Nonchalance

[This post originally appeared at In Media Res as a part of the Transmedia: New Platforms theme week.]

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A brief history of transmedia world-building

A general outline of transmedia “world-building” practices in a variety of historical and social contexts. Prepared for a guest lecture delivered at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts.

Taking risks and dancing with audiences: Andrea Phillips on writing for transmedia and ARGs

In this interview, Andrea Phillips discusses her creative process and the formal and technical limitations (and possibilities) of ARGs and other playful forms of transmedia storytelling.

Trans-Canada transmedia: Christopher Bolton’s multi-platform search for identity, sound, and story

This interview is a snapshot of Christopher Bolton’s thinking as his transmedia project, In Search of Gordon Lightfoot, moves through the funding process and into the first stages of pre-production.

Talking story with Jan Libby

Knowing that Jan Libby is a prolific and talented indie ARG designer, I asked her if she would be interested in doing a short interview about how she plans and evolves her games — and about the important role of story in the future of ARGs. We exchanged a few emails, and Jan sent me these responses — along with some great behind-the-scenes images from her upcoming indie storyworld, 36nine…

Building a vast world with an indie board game: an interview with James Taylor

In this brief interview, I ask game designer James Taylor a few questions about how his latest board game engages players in consuming and producing story both within and beyond the boundaries of the magic circle.

Masquerades disclose the reality of souls

A moving and deeply personal description of a very literary kind of transmedia storytelling can be found in…

Transmedia and Education: Three Essential Readings

Henry Jenkins’ New Media Literacies class has been a treasure-trove of readings and insights. Three recent articles covered in class struck me as particularly essential for anyone who’s looking to build an understanding of what multimodal communication is and how transmedia relates to education, literacy and literature.

David Bordwell on Transmedia Storytelling

Film scholar David Bordwell posts a terrific summary of multiplatform or transmedia storytelling, covering everything from key precedents in cinema and theory to the hope many of us have for the form to reach higher and do more:

Blueful

Hypertext/IF author Aaron Reed’s latest work, “Blueful,” uses a variety of web 2.0 services…

Transmedia Storytelling and Alternate Reality Games

I prepared this presentation as a primer for non-specialist audiences on the subject of Alternate Reality Games. Includes brief survey of prior art, diagrams illustrating the nature of networked fictions, and references to key scholars/innovators.

The Who, What, When, Where, Why and How of Cross-Media

This is Christy Dena’s slide presentation from DIY Days here in Los Angeles. Which I just missed. But…

Transmedia Storytelling 101

Henry Jenkins, head of the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT and founding member of the Convergence…