Content tagged "transmedia"
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Thomas Allen Harris: “Collective Wisdom” Keynote
In conversation with MIT Professor Vivek Bald, critically-acclaimed filmmaker and artist Thomas Allen Harris will reveal his process, experiences, and unexpected outcomes working with communities in online and offline shared spaces and places. Livestream starting at 5pm.
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Podcast: Christine Walley, “The Exit Zero Project: A Transmedia Exploration of Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago”
Christine Walley talks about her research into the traumatic effects of the loss of the steel industry in Southeast Chicago and how it found expression in a book, website, and documentary film.
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The Exit Zero Project: A Transmedia Exploration of Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago
Christine Walley, Professor of Anthropology at MIT, will present an overview of the Exit Zero Project, which “seeks to recapture the stories of a region traumatized by de-industrialization.”
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Jason Mittell: “Strategies of Storytelling in Transmedia Television”
Middlebury’s Jason Mittell on how television narratives have expanded and been complicated through transmedia extensions, including video games, novelizations, websites, online video, and alternate reality games.
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Podcast: Anne Balsamo, “Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work”
In her transmedia project, Designing Culture, Anne Balsamo investigates the way in which culture influences the process of technological innovation.
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Podcast: Sasha Costanza-Chock, “Se Ve, Se Siente: Transmedia Mobilization in the Los Angeles Immigrant Rights Movement”
Sasha Costanza-Chock is a scholar and mediamaker who works in areas including social movements, participatory technology design, and participatory research.
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Robots and Media: Science Fiction, Anime, Transmedia, and Technology
Ian Condry on the prevalence of giant robots in anime and Cynthia Breazeal on how science fiction has influenced the development of real robotic systems.
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Podcast: “Booklife: The Private and the Public in Transmedia Storytelling and Self-Promotion”
What are the benefits and dangers of a confusion between the private creativity and the public career elements of a writer’s life caused by new media and a proliferation of “open channels”?
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Booklife: The Private and the Public in Transmedia Storytelling and Self-Promotion
What are the benefits and dangers of a confusion between the private creativity and the public career elements of a writer’s life?
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Podcast: “Cult Media”
Is it profitable to build a franchise on the intense interest of the few and relying on Long Tail economics?
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Futures of Entertainment 2
Developments in advertising, cult media, metrics, measurement, and accounting for audiences, cultural labor and audience relations.
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Podcast: “Television Branding: Lee Hunt’s New Best Practices for 2007”
Media strategist and author of Fundamentals of Television Branding and Marketing Lee Hunt presents recent innovations in television branding and discusses some of the struggles being faced by networks in the era of convergence and transmedia.
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“Translation” in Transmediation: Exploring the Metaphor
Transferring narratives from one medium to another is often either likened to the process of translation or just plainly called translation.
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Video: Futures of Entertainment 2006, “Transmedia Properties”
How are storytellers taking advantage of the “expanded canvas” such an approach offers? How do transmedia strategies impact the new integration between brands and entertainment properties? What new expectations do transmedia properties place on consumers?
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Futures of Entertainment Conference Examines the Entertainment Landscape
MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program co-hosted Futures of Entertainment with the Convergence Culture Consortium, one of the program’s research groups.
