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The Networked Fictional Narrative: Seriality And Adaptations In Popular Television And New Media., Nandita Dutta
The Networked Fictional Narrative: Seriality And Adaptations In Popular Television And New Media., Nandita Dutta
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From creating elaborate fan-worlds to driving large amounts of revenue into the economy, popular culture has proved to be the motivation behind, as well a reflection of, large scale acquisitions of conglomerates that have governed popular interests since the mid-20th Century. If its movements across geographic space, time, and media can be traced, popular culture production is an apt subject of research into how a cultural entity is conceptualised, transported and appropriated within another. In this study, adaptations of fictional products in the 20th and 21st Centuries are considered as manifestations of neobaroque forms of culture production and consumption. Some …
Interstory: A Study Of Reader Participation And Networked Narrative In Media Convergence, Elika Ortega Guzman
Interstory: A Study Of Reader Participation And Networked Narrative In Media Convergence, Elika Ortega Guzman
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Recently we have seen the proliferation of narratives developing in media convergence: simultaneously on websites, blogs, multimedia platforms, books, magazines, etc. In this thesis, I propose the term interstory to characterize this narrative tendency. Interstory is a narrative constituted by a network of story pieces published in different media and compiled by readers. To illustrate the concept of interstory I take as a study case Hernán Casciari’s and Christian Basilis’ Orsai, which in two years has incorporated into its narrative three blogs, a print magazine, and a web magazine. Orsai has been a successful project thanks to the formation of …