Archive For September, 2009

Fan production and transmedia audienceships?

By Xiaochang Li | September 28, 2009

I typically don’t post such not-remotely-developed thoughts, but questions of the “transmedia audience” and how it is related to fan production have been prodding at me and part of me thinks that it may be worthwhile to at least verbalizing the question, if not offering any actual answers. The comments in my last post on [...]

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weekly round-up [9/25/09]: Wharton on the Long Tail, transmedia and the future of tv, Mittel on lostpedia

By Xiaochang Li | September 25, 2009

One of my biggest complaints about the blog-o-sphere is that the trade-off of being able to write more casually and toss out ideas that are just beginning to brew is that there sometimes isn’t enough attention paid to citation/reference/attribution. This isn’t so much a problem of credit where credit is due (though that can also [...]

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Transmedia as intertext and multiplicity: why some types of stories lend themselves to transmedia

By Xiaochang Li | September 23, 2009

With FOE this year being heavily transmedia-centric, I’ve been thinking (and reading) a lot lately about transmedia — about what there is to say now that we’re past the phase of describing what it is and moving into thinking more deeply about what it does and how. A recent interview at Narrative Design Exploratorium with [...]

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The Future is coming (again)

By Xiaochang Li | September 2, 2009

As the summer winds down, it’s time again to start gearing up for the Convergence Culture Consortium (C3)’s annual Futures of Entertainment Conference. This November 20th and 21st will be the 4th installment of our biggest and most public event, featuring key thinkers from across industry and academia, hashing it out on a range of [...]

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