Global Convergence Cultures: Transmedia Earth
- Submitting institution
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Bournemouth University
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 303342
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138732384
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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3 - Media Industries
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This is the first collection to challenge existing concepts, contexts, and theorizations of transmedia and convergence culture in academia. The objective of the book is to enrich current understandings of transmedia by moving beyond commonly studied scenarios of Hollywood convergences and globalized digital communication giants by beginning to map and to theorize how the rising prominence of transmediality across cultural borders has been used in very different ways to engage and to reshape local cultural communities and their national stories around the world. The aim being to broaden the field of study by exploring understudied national and international instantiations that should open up the field significantly to new pathways of knowledge, epistemology and enquiry. The resulting work demonstrates that transmedia expressions and enterprises can be located in other geographic territories, yet due to academic neglect, the field is overwhelmed with Anglo-American studies that privilege entertainment platforms over more localized frameworks that are not necessarily geared by the globalized media industry. The collection’s findings demonstrate that transmedia affordances are being mobilized to tell stories in a range of varied contexts and contingencies that differ from entertainment franchises, that look beyond branding, marketing and financing to consider the way in which transmedia stories are addressing ‘real’ issues, such as politics, history and social issues; meaning that transmediality is not always about storytelling, at least not in a traditional fictional sense, but is geared towards non-fictional narratives. Global Convergence Cultures: Transmedia Earth includes an introduction written by both editors that lays out the blind-spots in the field in relation to national and international diversities, and both editors have separate solo-written chapters included within the book, as well being responsible for the commissioning, reviewing and editing of twelve new chapters on transmedia and convergence in countries in European and global contexts.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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