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 …

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 …

Don't restrict your creative property to one media channel. Make the essential leap to
transmedia! From film to television to games and beyond, Storytelling Across Worlds gives …

Chapter 30 defines transmedia storytelling as a hybrid of adaptation and transfictionality.
Like the former, it involves several media; like the latter, it builds a storyworld through …

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 …

This book shows how the unique characteristics of traditionally differentiated media continue
to determine narrative despite the recent digital convergence of media technologies. The …

In this chapter I argue that transmedia storytelling is more fruitfully understood as a broad
category to describe instances of convergent storytelling but also varieties of pre-digital …

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) …

Vast transmedia storyworlds like Star Wars and Star Trek are never created by just one
storyteller. Both George Lucas and Gene Roddenberry employed armies of talented …

Many concepts have been developed to describe the convergence of media, languages,
and formats in contemporary media systems. This article is a theoretical reflection on …