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One of the most universal of human needs is  the need to make sense of the world and our lives through stories.  Emerging media devices and environments are not only changing what stories get told. They are also catalyzing dramatic innovations for how stories are fashioned and told, and how people access stories, experience them, and pass them on to others.

 

Take, for example, S P A R K S, a quirky new web-based serial about the stories--and the new modes of storytelling--that new media technologies are provoking in people's lives.

 

"Equal parts absurdist comedy, mystery, and documentary, Sparks is a web-based serial about humans and technology. The story follows 30 year-old Sarah Sparks in her quest to serve the tech-dependent citizenry of New York as a freelance technologist. Her special "connection" with technology, however, takes her far beyond simple repair jobs, and into both the lives of her clients as well as some of the city's darkest, most chaotic corners."

 

































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Like the creators of Sparks, transmedia storytellers are using social media and web 2.0 to invent new ways to pass stories along, embellish them, and integrate them into their audiences' daily lives.

 

Read about the 10 characteristics that Henry Jenkins says distinguishes Transmedia Storytelling as a media phenomenon.

 

 



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Transmedia Storytelling as:

MARKETING STRATEGY

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Since the late 1980s, ACT UP has used transmedia storytelling to motivate, mobilize, intervene, correct, interrupt, build coalitions, and inspire. Experience one of the most successful efforts to activate transmedia storytelling for urgent social change.

 

 

 

 

 

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Transmedia Storytelling as:

NEW DIGITAL FORM

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Transmedia storytelling as it is emerging right now is made possible by digital storytelling. Digital storytelling is beiing shaped not only by emerging media technologies and practices, but also by new audience behaviors and expectations.



 

 
































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CAPSULE AT THE EDGE: ARTISTS EXTEND THE LIMITS OF TRANSMEDIA STORYTELLING

 

 

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Experience how artists are experimenting with the aesthetic possibilities and challenges of transmedia storytelling via digital storytelling.

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CAPSULE AT THE EDGE: TRANSMEDIA STORYTELLING FOR "GLOBAL COOLING"

 

 

 

 

 

 

Experience how FOCUS THE NATION uses transmedia storytelling to organize a national teach-in on global warming. Link to Capsule >>




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RE-SCAN: AT THE CRITICAL EDGE OF TRANSMEDIA LEARNING

 

"Imagine what could be if anybody anywhere could upload information about anything at anytime to be viewed by everybody everywhere. Are we preparing out students to participate in this kind of world?"

- Mike Wesch

 


"Lately I find myself doing such bizarre activities in the classroom that I can scarcely refer to myself as a 'teacher.'"- Mike Wesch

Mike Wesch gives us a dramatic look at how transmedia storytelling is bringing teaching and learning to a critical edge. Watch here: "Human Futures for Technology and Education" (Educause Learning Intiative, Annual Meeting, 2008).






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NO TECH: MEDIA AS WITNESS

 

 

 

 

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LO TECH: DESIGN A TRANSMEDIA CAMPAIGN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MO TECH: DESIGN A STORY FOR DIGITAL AND TRANSMEDIA STORYTELLING

 

 

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SUBMIT A FILM TO PANGEA DAY'S TRANSMEDIA STORYTELLING EVENT

 

 

 





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