Transmedia Storytelling 101 By Henry Jenkins I designed this handout on transmedia storytelling to distribute to my students. More recently‚ I passed it out at a teaching workshop at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. I thought it might be of value to more of you out there in the community. Much of it builds on the discussion of that concept in Convergence Culture‚ though I have updated it to reflect some more recent developments in that space. For those who want to dig deeper still into
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Parallel Worlds and the End of the World “The voice of the light remains ever so faint; images quiet as ancient constellations float across the dome of my dawning mind. They are indistinct fragments that never merge into a sensate picture. There would be a landscape I have not seen before‚ unfamiliar melodic echoes‚ whisperings in a chaos of tongues” (Murakami 183). There’s no escaping the apocalypse. For all of us‚ there will be some “end of the world” experience‚ whether or not we live
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Ever wondered about your existence? Or what came first‚ the chicken or the egg? Although a plethora of philosophical arguments for God’s existence has been proposed by Christian‚ Jewish and secular writers‚ their arguments have limited rational thoughts to sufficiently prove God’s existence. In actuality‚ there is no level of rationality that is able to ascertain who or what is readily described as the ‘Alpha’ being due to our finite human knowledge. We are stuck in a mess of enigmas‚ contradictions
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Time had always seemed to be an elusive concept to them; much like a unicorn it was something they could never catch. Neither Timothy nor Adeline could answer the queen. They simply did not know why their sewing styles hadn’t saved them any time. King Leonardo had been watching the conversation throughout its duration. He
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Is there a God? Is it true that there is one or many Supreme beings that created the universe within it including humans? There are atheist that say no‚ and theist that say yes. But who is truly right in their conclusions of God’s existence. Philosophers have debated the highly controversial issue‚ and many proofs have been claimed of God’s existence. However‚ for every good claim there is a counter to the claim as well. There are many reasons which people have argued the existence of a
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Isolationism in Hard Boiled Wonderland In his book Hard Boiled Wonderland‚ Haruki Murakami attempts to create a narrative that promotes one main idea in different perspectives. There are two separated settings for the novel which reinforces the main theme. Isolation is a clear theme that can be recognized throughout the novel‚ both in the environment that surrounds the narrator and in the main character’s own mind. The author distinctively creates a mysterious combination of two different narratives
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words in a written format has changed the world. Today‚ type is all around us. Some fonts like Helvetica are familiar and comforting. Others‚ like Comic Sans‚ should never be seen unless you are a five-year-old girl writing a story about rainbows and unicorns. As one of the great Classic typographers‚ John Baskerville had a great impact on typography and printing. At the young age of 20‚ John Baskerville started a writing-school in Birmingham and a business of cutting the letters on tombstones and memorials
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quotes to Laura’s situation‚ she began to realize instantly that she is not too different from something she think is beautiful. “It doesn’t matter. Maybe it’s a blessing in disguise.”(Williams 86) Laura states as the horn breaks off of one of the unicorns of her menagerie. While accepting the reality of her situation‚ it soon blossoms through her actions when she and Jim dance when she states “The horn was removed to feel less—freakish! Now he will feel more at home with the other horses‚ the ones
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Tech. Autumn 2013. This artifact is a website Ingrid created during her first quarter at UW Bothell. In CSS 233‚ she learned the basics of Unicode and HTML. She created this website based off of my interest. There is a page dedicated to Batman‚ unicorns‚ and basketball. She created this website using HTML coding. This artifact is significant to her because previously she never had any experience with media tech. This class helped Ingrid find a new hobby in tech‚ but not a career. Lujan‚ Ingrid
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convince myself that there is no way out of the situation I am in. I try to keep myself as optimistic yet real as much as possible‚ because‚ according to those people who have experienced the real-world‚ the real-world is not fine and dandy with unicorns and rainbows all over. Therefore‚ understanding the real-world is not a perfect place‚ I try to react and view those imperfect events in a different
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