Nineteenth-century transmedia practices

Abstract

Transmedia practices have a history. In the nineteenth century, they spanned a variety of phenomena that were spurred by growing industrialization, technologization, and urbanization of life. Aware of the public controversies that their ‘cause’ had spurred over the years, suffragettes launched a series of practices to gain more followers and supporters. Aware of the public controversies that their ‘cause’ had spurred over the years, suffragettes launched a series of practices to gain more followers and supporters. Activist organizations also used a variety of practices to offer a transmedia experience. By spotlighting the long nineteenth century, people are hoping to offer an unprecedented, more systematic look at transmedia practices that accompanied the birth of Western modernity. It is worth exploring the nineteenth century in its longue duree to highlight the evolution and complexities of various transmedial – and transnational – entanglements.