Crossmedia Innovations

Crossmedia and transmedia are keywords of increasing importance for media professionals and scholars alike. This book contains chapters by authors who approach the phenomenon from different disciplinary angles. The common interest lies in the dynamics that lead to experiments with crossmedia and in how cultures are innovated through such practices.

Autorentext

Indrek Ibrus is a Research Fellow at the Estonian Institute of Humanities of Tallinn University. He researches and teaches media innovation and crossmedia production. Carlos A. Scolari is Associate Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra at Barcelona (Spain). He researches and teaches the evolution of digital interfaces, interactive communication and transmedia storytelling.

Inhalt
Contents: Indrek Ibrus/Carlos A. Scolari: Introduction: Crossmedia innovation? Maarja Saldre/Peeter Torop: Transmedia space Carlos A. Scolari: The Triplets and the incredible shrinking narrative: Playing in the borderland between transmedia storytelling and adaptation Colin B Harvey: Crossmedia cross-stitch: Spinoff stories as transmedial and intramedial suture Sarah Atkinson: The view from the fourth wall window: Crossmedia fictions Andreu Belsunces Gonçalves: Fringe: Playful transmedia Richard Berger/Ashley Woodfall: The digital utterance: A crossmedia approach to media education Joan Ramon Rodríguez-Amat/Katharine Sarikakis: The fandom menace or the phantom author? On sharecropping, crossmedia and copyright Göran Bolin: Audience activity as a co-production of crossmedia content Cinzia Colapinto/Eleonora Benecchi: Movie industry goes viral in the XXIst century: If what counts is the buzz Annika Wiklund-Engblom/Seppo Leminen/Mika Westerlund/Simon Staffans/Michaela Esch/Risto Rajala: Towards transmedia innovation: An empirical analysis of a multiplatform format Steinar Ellingsen: Web series, independent media and emerging online markets: Then and now Indrek Ibrus: The AV industry's microcompanies encounter multiplatform production Aurite Kouts: 'You make the movies': Audiences as new filmmakers in the age of user-generated content Jose A. García-Avilés: Innovation management in crossmedia production: Leading change in the newsroom Rosa Franquet i Calvet/María Isabel Villa Montoya: Exploring the crossmedia content of public broadcasters in Catalonia and Denmark Ivar John Erdal: What media logic? Organization of crossmedia production in two medium-sized Norwegian newsrooms.