Transmedia

Haley Moore: Tangible Storytelling and the Laser Lace Letters

Haley Moore is an artist and designer who specializes in using technology to tell stories with objects.

TIFF Nexus

TIFF Nexus is an exciting new initiative designed to equip Ontario storytellers with the network, skills and…

Level Up Scores Both Great Games and Great Crowds!
Posted 5 April 2013 | 9:17 pm

TIFF KIDS INDUSTRY KEYNOTE ANNOUNCED!
Posted 3 April 2013 | 5:04 pm

The Level Up Student Showcase Returns!
Posted 2 April 2013 | 2:03 pm

We can tell you how to get to Sesame Street!
Posted 22 March 2013 | 8:49 pm

Get your finance game on at GameON: Finance this January (plus get a discount!)
Posted 11 January 2013 | 8:36 pm

Thachr

Sara Thacher: “I’m . . . a transmedia producer and experience designer. I make adventures that…

What is “Web-Native” TV? Why I’m Excited for Arrested Development’s Season Four
Posted 29 April 2013 | 3:00 pm

Olga Nunes on Making Transmedia Music
Posted 7 February 2013 | 8:18 am

Tangible Storytelling
Posted 25 November 2012 | 7:44 pm

I Saw a Unicorn and It was Called Renga
Posted 10 October 2012 | 5:21 am

Slow Mail
Posted 13 August 2012 | 4:00 pm

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…

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Musings from Simon Staffans, “a developer of different kinds of formats.”…

New blog - update your bookmarks!
Posted 3 September 2012 | 9:10 pm

Time to create transmedia
Posted 17 August 2012 | 12:16 pm

Transmedia - the ketchup effect
Posted 8 August 2012 | 12:43 pm

Pixel Lab 2012 half-time report
Posted 5 July 2012 | 10:04 am

Brands and transmedia
Posted 21 June 2012 | 10:14 am

Scott Walker

Playing in the collaborative sandbox of commercial entertainment, co-creating value with audiences, and…

Audio from “Designing Open Storyworlds” panel at StoryWorld 2012 Conference
Posted 27 October 2012 | 12:27 am

Thoughts on the FMX 2012 Conference
Posted 29 May 2012 | 12:12 pm

Speaker at FMX 2012
Posted 8 May 2012 | 7:18 pm

Where I’m going, where I’ve been…(part 2)
Posted 18 April 2012 | 9:29 pm

Interviewed (again!) by Transmedia Talk
Posted 15 April 2012 | 5:38 pm

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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That weird web thing

Nadia Elmrabet’s thoughts on transmedia, interactive narratives, fiction and ARGs. See also Twitter:…

leahphoenix: Charles Darwin discovers… Pokémon? YES. (A design...
Posted 10 January 2011 | 10:24 am

Petit-déjeuner Transmédia : la gestion des communautés FAIT PARTIE DE L'HISTOIRE
Posted 8 January 2011 | 8:46 pm

Photo
Posted 8 January 2011 | 4:04 pm

Wikileaks: l'idéologie de la communication en action (Serge Proulx)
Posted 8 January 2011 | 12:13 pm

"The information demanded by the DOJ is sweeping in scope. It includes all mailing addresses and..."
Posted 8 January 2011 | 11:37 am

Presentations

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.

1001 Tales

Siobhan O’Flynn: transmedia, crossmedia, physical installations, interactive films……

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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.

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.