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Blacksad: Under the Skin. Transmedia and Ludification as Cultural Experience

open access: yesRevista de Comunicación, 2021
Media convergence and transmediality have led fictional worlds originally developed in graphic novels to be expanded in more recent media such as video games, where environments and characters become playable and where storytelling elements intertwine ...
Marta Fernández Ruiz   +1 more
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Climate Fiction as Future‐Making: Narrative and Cultural Modelling Beyond Representation

open access: yesFuture Humanities, Volume 3, Issue 1, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Climate fiction (cli‐fi) increasingly attracts the attention of wider publics and expert science communities. And yet, critiques of its limits and the limits of its efficiency as a tool of persuading broader readerships are also becoming more frequent.
Roman Bartosch, Julia Hoydis
wiley   +1 more source

Intermedial Comparatism and Posthumanism

open access: yesCompendium
This article explores the relevance of the figure and identity model of the cyborg for Intermedial Comparatism. An overview of associated problems amenable to analysis is offered, together with a transmedial corpus of cultural texts related to science ...
Domingo Sánchez-Mesa Martínez   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Novice interpreters, transmedia fictions and the afferent stance

open access: yesLiteracy, Volume 59, Issue 2, Page 177-184, May 2025.
Abstract Louise Rosenblatt's well‐known concept of stance distinguishes between efferent reading (reading to take something away from the text) and aesthetic reading (reading for the experience of dwelling in the text). This article proposes a refinement to this binary, adding the concept of afferent reading. Afference, in biology, means a bringing‐to,
Margaret Mackey
wiley   +1 more source

On Fantasy’s Transmediality: A Cognitive Approach

open access: yesComparatismi, 2016
Books but also movies, TV-series, fanfictions, role-playing games, and much more. The fantasy narrative genre shows one of the highest levels of transmediality. This paper proposes an explanation of the phenomenon, combining the worldbuilding theory with
Simone Rebora
doaj   +1 more source

Lost in Transmediation. Transmedial Adaption of Videogames and GDNA Theory

open access: yesIJTL - International Journal of Transmedia Literacy, 2018
Videogames and their transmedial adaptations share common persuasive messages. Their rhetoric is diverse, encompassing political as well as economic messages for the players. Yet, the possibilities to analyze the translation from videogames towards other media is so far limited.
openaire   +2 more sources

Poet as poem: The intermedial staging of A. E. Housman in Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, Volume 79, Issue 4, Page 336-349, August 2024.
Abstract Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love (1997) offers the audience a dream‐like voyage through the post‐mortem reminiscences of the central character, A. E. Housman. The attempt to resurrect Housman, as the historical figure in real life, is suspended by the intertextual incorporation of Housman's poems, the both fictive and enigmatically private
Huayu Yang, Bowen Wang
wiley   +1 more source

"Productive fandom: Intermediality and affective reception in fan cultures," by Nicolle Lamerichs

open access: yesTransformative Works and Cultures, 2020
Review of Nicolle Lamerichs. Productive fandom: Intermediality and affective reception in fan cultures. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018, hardback, $115 (244p) ISBN 978-90-8964-9386.
Caitlin McCann
doaj   +1 more source

“Back Then it was Only Men Who Worked in These Kinds of Fields”: Observing Little Sparks Through the Prism of Affect and Gender in Maker Literacies Research

open access: yesReading Research Quarterly, Volume 59, Issue 3, Page 282-297, July/August/September 2024.
This article delves into moments of affect, puncturing the exchanges between an early career 2SLGBTQ+ researcher and a group of Canadian adolescents, mostly composed of girls, who developed a ClayMation video to take the pulse of emerging vibrancies in maker literacies. Among these dynamisms came the matter of gender in the research project. Adopting a
Amélie Lemieux
wiley   +1 more source

Culture as education: From transmediality to transdisciplinary pedagogy

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2019
For the past three years, the Transmedia Research Group at the Department of Semiotics, University of Tartu, has been developing open access online materials for supporting the teaching of humanities-related subjects in Estonian- and Russianlanguage ...
Maarja Ojamaa   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

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