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Transmedia Practice:Theorising the Practice of Expressing a Fictional World across Distinct Mediaand Environments
by Christy DenaA thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)School of Letters, Art and MediaDepartment of Media and CommunicationsDigital Cultures ProgramUniversity of SydneyAustraliaSupervisor: Professor Gerard GogginAssociate Supervisor: Dr. Chris Chesher Associate Supervisor: Dr. Anne Dunn2009
Transmedia Practice
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« prev | next »- From Interpreting to Constructing Meaning
- The Disciplinary Methodology of this Thesis
- The Terminology of Transmedia Practice
- The Structure of this Thesis
- Chapter 2: Art, Commerce, Media and Environments in Transmedia Practice
- Artistic Vision, Commerce and Practice
- Theorising Economics and Aesthetics in Mass Entertainment
- The Implications of Commerce in Transmedia Practice
- Distinct Media and Environments
- What does Distinct Media Mean?
- Why Environments?
- The Seventh Investigation (Art as Idea as Idea)
- Beyond Media Specificity
- Transmedia as “UnMixed Media” Aesthetics
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Relations Theories and Distinguishing Transmedia Types and Practice
- Recognising Inter- and IntraCompositional Transmedia Phenomena
- Theorising InterCompositional Transmedia Phenomena
- The Problem with End-Product Traits
- InterCompositional Relations Theories
- Understanding InterCompositional Transmedia Practice
- The Who of Transmedia Practice
- Continuity Documentation
- Battlestar Galactica
- Adaptation and Transmedia Practice
- Thursday’s Fictions
- IntraCompositional Transmedia Phenomena
- The ‘Breaking Boundaries’ Rhetoric
- Chapter 4: Narrative, Game and Interactivity in Transmedia Projects
- From Ideologies of Interactivity to Literacy
- Problematising Narrative and Game Elements
- Current Narrative- and Game-Based Theories of Transmedia Phenomena
- Rethinking Game and Narrative Similarities
- Theorising a Transmodal Approach
- Transmodal Concepts
- The Ocular Effect
- Design Documents, Interactivity and Media
- Reactivity in Transmedia Projects
- Non-Computational Game Mastering
- Players as Co-Constructors
- Perplex City
- Introducing Tiering
- Tiering to Address Artistic and Media Preferences and Literacies
- Tiering to Facilitate Social Interaction and Cooperation
- Uncle Roy All Around You
- Tiering to Bring Remote Participants Together
- The Aesthetics of Dramatic Unities
- Action and Representation: Dramatic Unities in Transmedia Practices
- Recentering a Fictional Universe with the Actual World
- Understanding Recentering through Deixis
- Recentering with Fictional World Abstraction (Concepts)
- Recentering with Media and Environments: Property Resemblance
- Recentering with Paratextuality
- Recentering with Hypertextuality
- Recentering with MetaTextuality
- Recentering with Catalytic Allusions
- Studying Transmedia Practice
- From the End-Point Experience to Meaning Construction
- Transmedia Knowledge and Skills
- Theorising an Ongoing Tendency
- Future Directions
- Glossary
- Works Cited
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