Reading S across media: transmedia storyworlds, multimodal fiction, and real readers

GIBBONS, Alison (2017). Reading S across media: transmedia storyworlds, multimodal fiction, and real readers. Narrative, 25 (3), 321-341.

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Official URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/669940/summary
Link to published version:: https://doi.org/10.1353/nar.2017.0017
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Abstract

Using J. J. Abrams and Doug Dorst’s S (2013) as its case study, this article explores multimodal fiction and transmedia storyworlds. Conceptualizations of transmedia storytelling have sought to emphasize not only the creation and distribution of narrative worlds across media but also the imaginative construction of these worlds by recipients. Nevertheless, this latter characteristic has been somewhat neglected in terms of empirical research. This article seeks to redress that neglect in relation to printed multimodal fiction, by using real reader data to gain insight into how readers engage with such transmedia, transfictional storyworlds. The analysis at the heart of the article progresses outwards from an exploration of the central multimodal text, S, to consider its wider transmedia network and the narrative experience it offers readers. Ultimately, the article makes two original contributions to the study of transmedia narratives and the multimodal novel. Firstly, it considers how various media texts within a transmedia network (with a multimodal printed novel at its center) together create a transfictional storyworld; secondly, it explores how real readers experience such storyworlds.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Transmedia, Multimodal fiction, real readers, story worlds, transfictionality, convergence
Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: Humanities Research Centre
Departments - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities > Department of Humanities
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1353/nar.2017.0017
Page Range: 321-341
Depositing User: Alison Gibbons
Date Deposited: 13 Dec 2016 16:19
Last Modified: 18 Mar 2021 01:04
URI: https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/14276

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