ABSTRACT
Around the globe, people now engage with media content across multiple platforms, following stories, characters, worlds, brands and other information across a spectrum of media channels. This transmedia phenomenon has led to the burgeoning of transmedia studies in media, cultural studies and communication departments across the academy. The Routledge Companion to Transmedia Studies is the definitive volume for scholars and students interested in comprehending all the various aspects of transmediality. This collection, which gathers together original articles by a global roster of contributors from a variety of disciplines, sets out to contextualize, problematize and scrutinize the current status and future directions of transmediality, exploring the industries, arts, practices, cultures, and methodologies of studying convergent media across multiple platforms.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
Industries of Transmediality
chapter 2|10 pages
Transmedia Documentary
chapter 5|10 pages
Transmedia Comics
chapter 9|9 pages
Transmedia Journalism
chapter 10|8 pages
Transmedia Sports
chapter 12|8 pages
Transmedia Celebrity
chapter 13|7 pages
Transmedia Attractions
part II|2 pages
Arts of Transmediality
chapter 14|8 pages
Transmedia Storytelling
chapter 18|8 pages
Transmedia Writing
part III|2 pages
Practices of Transmediality
chapter 22|7 pages
Transmedia Developer
chapter 24|10 pages
Transmedia Commodification
chapter 25|10 pages
Transmedia Franchising
part IV|2 pages
Cultures of Transmediality
chapter 28|9 pages
Transmedia Archaeology
chapter 30|10 pages
Transmedia Fandom and Participation
chapter 32|9 pages
Transmedia Politics
part V|2 pages
Methodologies of Transmediality