Abstract
It is necessary to continuously review the definition of the book moving from one bound by its material form to one determined by its function as a means of communication. The book’s social function as the high status vehicle for communicating new ideas and cultural expressions is being challenged by sophisticated systems of conveying meaning in other media. In this article, we report on two projects: electronic book (e-book) publication and reader forum for Nature Mage and the transmedia augmented reality (AR) fiction Sherwood Rise, which investigate these issues. Claudio Pires Franco’s work is based on the adaptation of a source work: Duncan Pile’s Nature Mage. The project aims to develop the book from e-book to a fan-produced enhanced digital book. Through this practice-based research, Franco investigates the definitions and classification of the e and i forms of the book and adaptation in new media; the role of the author in creative collaboration with readers through online forums; the extension of the story world through creative collaboration and reader participation while respecting and safeguarding creative properties. One remove from the traditional book, David Miller’s Sherwood Rise, research the user experience with AR to examine narrative problems and explore new storytelling aesthetics. These new media forms define the outer borders of the book system within which content is formed and moulded, and around which society is shaped.
Highlights
Augmented Reality (AR) is poised to transform the storytelling of twenty-first-century journalism in perhaps the same fashion as photography of 150 years before
In this article we report on two projects: ebook publication and reader forum for Nature Mage and the transmedia augmented reality (AR) fiction Sherwood Rise, which investigate these issues
Sherwood Rise pushed the definition of the book raising questions central to the book as a system of publishing
Summary
AR is poised to transform the storytelling of twenty-first-century journalism in perhaps the same fashion as photography of 150 years before. Exploring the cultural connotations of the book Alexis Weedon considered the values of metaphors used about them: the codex as ‘a hinge’ binding pages of fixed and locatable ideas; the cut-glass wine goblet that holds and displays its content to its best advantage; the rose, a symbol of the intensity of the relationship between the reader and the text and how that is transferred to the reification of the object itself. The book’s social function as the high status vehicle for communicating new ideas and cultural expressions is being challenged by sophisticated systems of conveying meaning in other media As an example she shows how an individual book changes value during its existence in terms of price, inherent or cultural value, exchange value and use value (with GPS navigation and satellite views of the earth, the use value and inherent value of a map and an atlas have changed) and yet gains cultural and economic value though its different adaptations and media forms It is presented as an iBook, produced with a software programme called iBooks Author, and its visual representation remediates the format of a book
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