ENTRY POINT
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.
