ABSTRACT
It is natural to define epochs of history with an identity relating to key influential imperatives such as governance, economics, and industry, given that historically these have often been principal drivers for the rest of contemporary life (society, science, education, arts, etc.). The end result can perhaps be conceived as somewhat analogous to the artist who draws multiple freehand lines to capture planes, angles, and contours when sketching their subject, the aggregation of marks on paper providing the suggestion of the shape to the viewer, rather than explicitly describing it. The ubiquity and pervasiveness of media content and technologies is one of the defining characteristics of the early twenty-first century, whether or not we accept the suggestion of a transmedia age. Perhaps in such an environment, instead of attempting to find useful definitions for the continuously fluid technologies of a transmedia age, a more effective strategy is to concentrate on conception of our own transmedia selves.
