Transmedia Experiences Research Articles

A journey through communication research on transportation: the future of narrative transportation on emerging forms of media

ABSTRACT This essay discusses how storytelling conventions and entertainment delivery methods have evolved with the advent of new technologies, such as virtual and augmented reality. This paper aims to explore the psychological mechanisms involved in narrative processing for users of augmented and virtual reality spaces, focusing on transportation as an important construct. A history of presence through art performances and Greek poetry is discussed. Connections are established between Greek tragedies and audience scholarship, highlighting Nietzsche’s framework for understanding the impact of Greek tragedies on audiences and the concept of the fourth wall. The fourth wall is used to assess the similarities and differences between traditional and emerging forms of media. Finally, future research on transportation with narratives on virtual and augmented reality is proposed. These recommendations include: adapting the transportation measure to fit the affordances of emerging tech better, clarifying the relationship between transportation and flow in the context of narrative exposure within emerging tech, and conceptualizing transportation at a macro level to include transmedia experiences.

Anatomía del transpodcaster: un nuevo perfil de productor en el podcast independiente

As the podcast establishes itself as a new medium, an increasing number of transpodcasts have emerged. These are transmedia projects that expand the limits of sound to broaden the possibilities of narrative and increase participation, while always keeping podcasts at the center of the experience. In this context — and through a study of independent podcasters in the city of Córdoba, Argentina — this article analyzes a new type of podcast producer, linked to the production of transpodcasts. Our main goal is to describe a group of transpodcast experiences in the aforementioned city and characterize their producers. Through qualitative investigation and ethnographic field work, we were able to obtain relevant data about sound-based transmedia experiences developed during the first semester of 2021 in the capital of the province of Córdoba. Specifically, the study focuses on three podcasts: Parque Podcast, No me grites   producciones, and Una bomba de tiempo. Our approach, and especially our in-depth interviews with the producers of the aforementioned projects, allowed us to identify the main traits of these producers, who are distinct from those profiled in previous studies. Following our analysis, we concluded that the members of the multidisciplinary teams that design and execute transmedia podcasts tend to professionalize their craft and designate at least one coordinator who can look over the entire project. These coordinators adopt the role of a producer or transmedia producer, specifically the new role of a user-producer of a podcast, which, in our contribution to the subject, we are calling a transpodcaster. &nbsp

XR기반 트랜스미디어 콘텐츠 디자인 연구

This study is about XR-based transmedia content, focusing on connectivity. This type of connectivity does not mean merely connections between media or content but rather between users and reality with virtuality. This study sees XR-based transmedia as appropriate for realizing connectivity and aims to explore its possibility through an actual project. As a research method, this study includes literature review and a case analysis, and by analyzing XR-based cases, the researcher found a lack of connectivity in the current cases and thus conducted a project. With content from ASEAN CULTURE HOUSE, the researcher proceeded with the project with students and designed the concept of friendly characters with colors and easily readable text and intuitive typography considering a family with children. To construct transmedia experiences, publishing-based media was applied for understanding and delivering information and XR-based media were applied to add new characters and for better storytelling. Then, the publishing-based media were used again to document results and were shared via SNS amongst users. The resulting two prototypes were evaluated by expert heuristic evaluations and interviews. It was found that simple design and consistency in media interfaces were positively evaluated with the related categories, whereas the categories related to preventing errors or providing help were criticized. In the interviews, experts complimented the trial-making experiences of new content when circulating the media experience. This study attempts to connect virtual content, providing new characters and events to actually existing media content and then returning to the sharing of the experiences of users to realize connectivity, i.e., the direction of transmedia, as mentioned earlier. This study has a limitation as the projects were created as prototypes; however, as XR has the potential to be involved in transmedia more, this study aims to contribute to the XR-based transmedia content realm, which is currently in the very early stages.

Transmedia experiences for social and emotional communication challenges: the reading the world academy

A “Academia da leitura do mundo: o jornalismo, a Comunicacao e eu” e um projeto de investigacao aplicada que promove uma experiencia transmediatica para jovens entre os 14 e os 25 anos e que aposta no desenvolvimento de tres competencias chave: a comunicacao, o espirito critico e a autorregulacao. O projeto foi concebido por um grupo multidisciplinar de professores, investigadores e jornalistas e resultou da urgencia de questionamento e exigencia essenciais para a compreensao das narrativas transmedia atuais. Neste artigo pretende-se apresentar as propostas de trabalho desta Academia da leitura, acolhida por varias instituicoes academicas Portuguesas especializadas no estudo da comunicacao e jornalismo (Faro, Portalegre, Covilha, Abrantes, Setubal e Lisboa) e selecionada para integrar a rede das Academias Gulbenkian do Conhecimento 2019. O objetivo da Academia ate 2022 e investir numa experiencia que permita discutir como podera o conhecimento, as competencias, atitudes e valores ser mobilizados para uma leitura critica do mundo.

Enfoques emergentes desde las artes y el diseño para la teorización y creación de experiencias transmedia. Aproximación desde el metaanálisis de publicaciones científicas

El objetivo de este documento es identificar la existencia de enfoques predominantes y emergentes en el diseño de experiencias transmedia con el fin de contribuir desde diferentes miradas al concepto transmedia, a partir de los modos de implicación de las audiencias. Se realiza un análisis bibliométrico sobre un total de 559 artículos consolidados a partir de la búsqueda bibliográfica realizada en WoS en la plataforma ISI Web of Knowledge (Thomson Reuters) y en SCImago Research Group (Scopus). Para el periodo de observación 2008 – 2019, se analizan los indicadores: productividad diacrónica, productividad de autores, citación y contenido. En los resultados, se observa un crecimiento exponencial de las publicaciones hasta su pico en el año 2016, así como su posterior estabilidad. De igual forma, se evidencia la conformación de redes de autores para la producción colaborativa y logro de objetivos comunes, también se identifica una tendencia a la citación de literatura convencional existente fuera de los documentos de la muestra. Las conclusiones establecen el interés de la comunidad académica por el diseño de experiencias transmedia y la implicación de las audiencias como contenido transversal a la muestra y no como tema de estudio central.

Elastic Worlds

In participatory transmedia experiences a wide range of player agency is desirable but can be problematic if the game and storyworld boundaries are unknown or ignored. Players breaking the world boundaries can mean an experience must be aborted or stops being fun.
 Yet breaking the rules is fun and in learning & development experiences like wargaming it might even be part of the goal. How then can authors of participatory experiences that play out in the real world allow players to break the rules but not break the world? How can we design an experience for the greatest player agency and the broadest scope of emergent stories yet prevent the world from travelling so far from the author’s intended state that it becomes unrecognisable, unplayable or unsuitable?
 This paper introduces the concept of an elastic storyworld as an alternative to a persistent storyworld: a world that stretches to accommodate unexpected player actions and yet restores itself over time.
 Drawing on definitions of elasticity from physics, the paper suggests ways in which authors might classify and detect player-enacted distortions and how participatory experiences might be designed to be more resilient to the stresses and strains of player agency.

Hablándole a la televisión: análisis de las conexiones discursivas entre Twitter y tres programas de contenido político en televisión abierta

Este artículo analiza la convergencia mediática entre Twitter y la televisión, describiendo la naturaleza de las conexiones discursivas en las conversaciones de los tuiteros durante un programa de entrevistas. Con una metodología cualitativa, se caracterizan los tuits realmente “convergentes”. Esta investigación pretende ser un aporte al estudio discursivo de las nuevas experiencias transmediales en las redes sociales digitales.

A garden of forking paths

A garden of forking paths