ABSTRACT
Each medium has preferences, the favouring of different variations in how to tell stories with differing results in how we use those narratives. This is revealed, sadly, in the final images: the big fish swims off, and at first we see only his tail, his head outside the frame of the page. While discussion of adaptation has long been a part of narrative, after a quick overview of some important ideas about adaptation, the author will focus people's attention specifically on how adaptation occurs particularly in the digital context. People are often maneuvering between word and image, in the case of book to film adaptation, or the transformation of a novel into a graphic narrative. Several of the examples considered here so far have already provided an opportunity to consider how digital culture, digital media, and transmedial storytelling have transformed our sense of the relationship between narrative and community.
