Hello, everyone- During the first day of class we will spend time familiarizing everyone with the structure of this course site, but hopefully you’ve had a bit of time to poke around and will bring questions/observations to class. We’ll also be talking about the readings/question for the day, found here; remember that this page is password protected…
In addition to perusing this site and completing the initial reading, please navigate to the course Diigo group (here or via the link in the right sidebar) and request membership. If this is your first encounter with Diigo, no worries; we will take time on Tuesday to orient everyone to the ways we’d like to use this tool as a collaborative space for sharing and discussing online resources.
“Better late than never” , after going through all the first readings I was prompted to submit a few comments, though late. In Henry Jenkin’s ‘Transmedia Entertainment, he defines transmedia storytelling as representing a process where integral elements of a fiction is systematically dispersed across several delivery channels. This is done purposely to create a unified coodinated entertainment experience. Big companies always take lead in transmedia story telling because as some of them hold interests across a range of distinct media industries. It gives them an opportunity to expand their francise by spreading their brands across as many as possible of their different media platforms. In our first week class discussion, we observed that in the old artistic days, man was a maker of everything, but now social media is changing the meaning of art. It can create and change the position on issues. We discussed that knowledge have moved to networks, and now networks move things. The same observation was made by Jenkins, but he reminded us that all artworks involve some division of labor among a large number of people. The same observation was made by Anthony Trollope that all artistic work involves the joint activity of a number of people.