Kevin Moloney: "I’ve written elsewhere that we’re living through a Cambrian Explosion in the ecology of media. [...] And with this explosion has come a diversity of terms to describe new creations and new arrangements. Multimedia? Crossmedia? Transmedia? What is the difference? I get that question a lot, and it’s a good one."
Because epistemology is a time-honored pastime of transmedia folk. And cross-media folk. And multimedia folk....
Kevin Moloney: "I’ve written elsewhere that we’re living through a Cambrian Explosion in the ecology of media. [...] And with this explosion has come a diversity of terms to describe new creations and new arrangements. Multimedia? Crossmedia? Transmedia? What is the difference? I get that question a lot, and it’s a good one."
Peter Usagi looks at Storify and Diigo as tools for transmedia journalism. And, as added interest, he shares his storified notes from "The Story of a Transmedia Revolution". These are great notes!
It is a transmedia meta-narrative. By transmedia I mean that it plays out not only in televised debates but also in ads, books, events, the daily paper, social media and shouting matches in bars...
The outlook for legacy journalism’s one-to-many model has never been so bleak, but pertinent to building a transmedia journalism is not whether this model is better than the many-to-many at certain roles or tasks...
[A look at the past, and the "transmedia" future of journalism.]
Kevin Moloney: "Anyone who follows any news in the 21st-century mediascape has experienced this native and uncoordinated form of transmedia journalism first hand" ...
Transmedia journalism does require more advance planning than other kinds of coverage. Decisions need to be made on questions like what the keystone medium will be, how will the story expand (not repeat) through other media, and what subset stories lend themselves to a particular medium. Our constraints of space and possibility are gone...
First, a transmedia approach to journalism would require that it be designed as transmedia from the start. Editors must consider what media are available to them and how the individual strengths of those media can be used to the story’s advantage...
Looking at journalism in terms of Henry Jenkins’ seven principles, all of the characteristics of transmedia as he defines it have individually been implemented in a journalism or documentary context before...
The beauty of journalism, however, is that we don’t need to create stories, characters or worlds. The real world is our transmedia world and it is already filled with cultures, characters and stories to be written and produced, connected to each other and delivered through multiple media channels...
If Hollywood has implemented transmedia storytelling for fictional story lines, then how can it be ported to the very structured, complete and directed world of journalism?
[The start of a very detailed look at Transmedia Storytelling and, in particular, how it applies to jounalism.]
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Interesting question - More interesting is to study what happens to culture and artistic work when it meets new media.
I work with the traditional art of storytelling, and study what happens when it´s performed in new digital media.
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Evolution....
Because epistemology is a time-honored pastime of transmedia folk. And cross-media folk. And multimedia folk....
Kevin Moloney: "I’ve written elsewhere that we’re living through a Cambrian Explosion in the ecology of media. [...] And with this explosion has come a diversity of terms to describe new creations and new arrangements. Multimedia? Crossmedia? Transmedia? What is the difference? I get that question a lot, and it’s a good one."