Narratives are everywhere--and since a significant part of contemporary media culture is
defined by narrative forms, media studies need a genuinely transmedial narratology. Against …

Contemporary media culture is shaped by technological innovations and the sustained
move of media conglomerates from vertical to horizontal integration. While the concept of the …

The proliferation of media and their ever-increasing role in our daily life has produced a
strong sense that understanding media--everything from oral storytelling, literary narrative …

In the past few years there have been a number of theories emerge in media, film, television,
narrative and game studies that detail the rise of what has been variously described as …

Is there such a thing as transmedia storytelling? In a sense I am playing the devil's advocate.
The culture of the past twenty years has produced a vast number of “cult” narratives that …

True to their structuralist inheritance, narratologists such as the early Roland Barthes sought
to use linguistics as a" pilot-science" in their efforts to develop new (and revolutionary) …

Just as the explosive growth of digital media has led to ever-expanding narrative
possibilities and practices, so these new electronic modes of storytelling have, in their own …

Comics can be described both as a type of medium and as a vehicle for storytelling. On the
one hand, comics are a medium. Even as online and digital comics formats are emerging …

The term transmedia storytelling has gone viral in media studies. But to what extent does it
label a truly new phenomenon, different from the older concepts of adaptation and …

Narratology has been conceived from its earliest days as a project that transcends
disciplines and media. The essays gathered here address the question of how narrative …