RTA 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Transmedia Storytelling, Walter Benjamin, Second Screen
5 Jan 2018
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Week 9: intro to transmedia and story world building. Transmedia: the intersection of game and play and storytelling. Streaming, downloading, netflix, twitch, ipad, laptop, phone, cable, tv, xbox, vr and more. Enriched content on another device provided by the content creators, or just our own searching and finding and making. Media properties and fans create applications games, stories, and communities that complement our experience or collective intelligence, solving and deciphering layers together. There has always been a community and play aspect to stories. We like to feel like we have it. We told stories in groups, as warnings as a means of explanation, entertainment, morality. Communities used stories to bring about events to ward off disease, to comfort. The role of the story and story teller is to prevent historical catastrophes from happening again. Prior to the novel: storytellers had an intimate relationship with their audience and the purpose of the story was to share wisdom to prevent historical catastrophes.
