The aim of this chapter is to analyse the theoretical changes that Transmedia storytelling is creating within literary studies, and consider the social consequences that these developments are bringing with them, including the ways we represent and perceive the world around us, and the ways we are teaching and learning. We will trace the history…
This paper will describe the use of technologies and the products created by students at Javeriana University in Bogota, Colombia and Akita International University in Japan. In Colombia, the students employed Transmedia Storytelling techniques to collaborate in the creation of a new fiction based on an existing short story. In Japan, students used these same…
This article investigates the effect of using E-learning transmedia practices to facilitate foreign language acquisition in university level Chinese students. In particular the article refutes the stereotype that Chinese students are passive consumers of instruction. On the contrary, the introduction of the transmedia approach employing different media platforms to develop a participatory culture demonstrates that…