Giants in Transmedia

Bibliographic Modelling of Transmedia

Transmedia is a set of techniques that use multiple media platforms (books, films, games, live performances, etc.) to create a single narrative. The thesis investigates how transmedia resources can be described and accessed within the conceptual framework provided by the FR family of data models and the FRBRoo ontology. Principal characteristics of transmedia compositions will be analysed in or...

Audience Value and Transmedia Products

‘Transmedia’ refers to a storyworld that occurs on multiple platforms where each component text makes a “distinct and valuable contribution to the whole”. In much of the practitioner discussion of transmedia storytelling, the attraction to audiences of transmedia products is taken for granted. This chapter asks: What is the respective value of a transmedia offering to the audience and to the or...

Analysis of Transmedia Storytelling in Pokémon GO

This study is part of a doctoral thesis on the topic of Hyperfiction: Past, Present and Future of Storytelling through Hypertext. It explores in depth the impact of transmedia storytelling and the role of hypertext in the realm of the currently popular social media phenomenon Pokémon GO. Storytelling is a powerful method to engage and unite people. Moreover, the technology progress adds a whole...

“Giants in a Microcosm”

On examination of a breast mass surgically excised in a 69-years-old woman, a pure invasive micropapillary carcinoma (MPC) was diagnosed (Figure 1). At close examination, intensely eosinophilic syncytial-multinucleated giant cells (CD68+) percolating the stromal bands were identified (Figure 1). The breast carcinoma illustrated here shows therefore a combination of 2 rarities, namely, an invasi...

Antidumping in Asia’s Emerging Giants