Essays about: "transmediality"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the word transmediality.

1. 1. Imagining the Metaverse Worlds : The Perspectives of Meta and Indonesians

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kommunikation och medier

   Author : Hamzah Dzikri Fadliansyah; [2022]
   Keywords : actor-network theory; civic imagination; digital technology; Indonesia Indonesian tech workers; mediatization; Meta; metaverse; postdigital; science and technology studies; sociotechnical imaginaries; technological convergence; transmedia; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : On October 28, 2021, Mark Zuckerberg announced the rebranding of Facebook to Meta through a keynote video uploaded on Meta’s official YouTube channel. The keynote video contains Meta’s new vision to build an immersive extended reality world called metaverse. However, the idea of the metaverse is contested. READ MORE

3. 2. “There’s More to Life ThanSitting There SimplyInterfacing” : David Foster Wallace and his Reader in a Literature afterPostmodernism

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

   Author : Andrea Minucci; [2018]
   Keywords : David; Foster; Wallace; Postmodernism; Literature; Infinite; Jest; Death of the Author; media studies; image-fiction; intermediality; transmediality; narrative; theory; narratology; heteroglossia; ekphrasis;

   Abstract : David Foster Wallace felt that literature was at a historical crossroad, and thatpostmodernism had passed the point which it could still be considered a'revolutionary' cultural phenomenon. He felt that the capitalistic machinery of TVand advertisement had absorbed the postmodernist techniques of pastiche,deconstruction and rejection of a distinction between high and low culturalmodels, to a point where there was no longer a difference between reality and itsown representation. READ MORE

4. 3. From Rolling to Reading: An Analysis of the Adaptation of Narrative Between Role-Playing Games and Novels

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

   Author : Nikolai Bjädefors Butler; [2018]
   Keywords : narrative; transmedial narratives; role-playing games; fictional worlds; adaptation; transmedia; dungeons dragons; call of cthulhu; superworld; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : Narratives are present throughout media, ranging from its traditional point of study, literature, to newer media such as films, graphic novels and video games. While these narratives have always transcended barriers to some degree today we find that the concept of transmedial narratives has become more relevant via the interconnected storyworlds established throughout popular culture. READ MORE

5. 4. “Bridging the Lonely Distances”: A Study of Metaphorical and Physical Voice in Don DeLillo’s The Names from the Perspective of Post-Classical Narratology

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Jakob Wingren; [2018]
   Keywords : Narratology; Voice; Audionarratology; Transmediality; Postclassical Narratology; Postmodern Fiction; Don DeLillo; The Names; Audiobooks; Language as experiential; Vocal Meaning;

   Abstract : This paper explores narratology with a focus on metaphorical and physical voice in Don DeLillo’s 1982 novel, The Names. Beginning with an overview of previous criticism on the novel and an exploration of its post-modern qualities, I progress into a discussion of meaning, and how it can be found in the narratological voice. READ MORE

6. 5. The Expanding Storyworld : An Intermedial Study of the Mass Effect novels

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för kultur och estetik

   Author : Jessika Sundin; [2018]
   Keywords : Drew Karpyshyn; William C. Dietz; Mass Effect; BioWare; storyworld; video games; digital games; intermediality; transmediality; narratology; semiotics; multimodality; media modality;

   Abstract : This study investigates the previously neglected literary phenomenon of game novels, a genre that is part of the increasing significance that games are having in culture. Intermedial studies is one of the principal fields that examines these types of phenomena, which provides perspectives for understanding the interactions between media. READ MORE