Transmedia

Comics Instead of Textbooks?

Jacob Devaney | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Book News, Transmedia, Education, Scholastic, Children, Children's Books, Comics, Books, Teachers, Education Reform, Learning, Graphic Novels, Video, Books News
Jacob Devaney

Learning is one of the most empowering things a person can do with their life and can be quite fun, yet the mediums used in classrooms are dated and have caused students to think that learning is drudgery.

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Future of Film: Our Top 10 Transmedia Posts of 2011

Tribeca Film | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Transmedia, The Future of Film Blog, Tribeca Film, Entertainment News
Tribeca Film

One might say transmedia is where the rubber meets the road for visual storytelling in the 21st century. In 2011 we had many posts from experts who can really define transmedia.

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PAVEMENT Occupies LA: 11.05/06.2011 (VIDEO w/ Bill Maher)

Sam Slovick | Posted 01.08.2012

Read More: Samslovick, Occupy Wall Street Protest, Transmedia, Los Angeles, Pavement, Protest, Occupy Wall Street, Video, Los Angeles News
Sam Slovick

The occupation at City Hall in Los Angeles can best be described in terms of digestion; the People have coughed up a big hairball on the Mayor's front...

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Future of Film: Story Hacks

Tribeca Film | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Hacks, Hackathon, Transmedia, Story Hacks, Hackathons, Transmedia Projects, Multimedia Storytelling, Media Storytelling, Technological Storytelling, Technology News
Tribeca Film

What if we applied the popular hackathon concepts of user-feedback and iteration to create a new kind of technological storytelling?

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Future of Film: Why Transmedia Is Catching On (Part 2)

Tribeca Film | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Transmedia, Transmedia Interviews, Transmedia Films, Transmedia Leaders, Transmedia Project, Media News
Tribeca Film

Leading transmedia talent has emerged from a wide array of disciplines, including technology, indie film, fantasy games, marketing, comic books, video...

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Future of Film: Why Transmedia Is Catching On (Part 3)

Tribeca Film | Posted 09.06.2011

Read More: Transmedia, Transmedia Film, Transmedia Projects, Entertainment News
Tribeca Film

Tracking transmedia developments as they unfold will be complicated, in part because this new entertainment format covers so much ground.

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Future of Film: Why Transmedia is Catching On

Tribeca Film | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Transmedia, Transmedia Project, Critique Transmedia, Transmedia Activism, Transmedia Critique, Transmedia History, History Transmedia, Anti Transmedia, Arts News
Tribeca Film

"Isaac Newton didn't discover gravity, he just named it," one TV writer-producer quipped during a recent conversation about transmedia. And so it woul...

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Connecting Meaning and Learning Through Storytelling

Laura Fleming | Posted 06.04.2011

Read More: Narrative, Transmedia, Education, Storytelling, Learning, Education News
Laura Fleming

Within education, storytelling techniques can be used to create an emotional connection with curricular content.

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Collective Creativity: Tapping Into the Irish Diaspora and Beyond

Reporters Uncensored | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Transmedia, Global, Interactive, Sundance Film Festival, Filmmaking, Crowdsourcing, Storytelling, Documentaries, Technology, Irish, Diaspora, World News
Reporters Uncensored

By Maura Kelly "IRISH people have a long and proud tradition of creativity. From the poems of Yeats to the invention of Boolean Algebra - the foundat...

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Social Media to Prevent Hate Media

Mark Belinsky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mapping, Islam, Books, Democracy, Hamas, Culture, Transmedia, Social Media, Activism, Advertising, Jewish, Media Literacy, Racism, Israel, Media News
Mark Belinsky

George Orwell wrote "history is written by the winners," and while this has been the case in many places, it has certainly not held true for Israel. A...

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Kids' Books Jump From Screen To Page ... And Back Again

npr.org | Morning Edition | Posted 05.25.2011

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Staying ahead of the younger generation isn't easy for the book publishing industry. Kids adapt easily when new devices come along, and they are often...

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Google's Chrome Has 40 Million Active Users, Glide Annouces Extension at CES (video)

Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Google, Transmedia, Google Chrome OS, Glide OS, Google Chrome, Technology News
Andy Plesser

Beet.TV's Daisy Whitney visits Google headquarters to speak with Google spokesman Eitan Bencuya about developments with their browser, Chrome.

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Is It Time to Move Your Agency to Hollywood?

DJ Edgerton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tim Armstrong, Ad Network, Click NY, Iphone, Transmedia, New Media, Hollywood, DJ Edgerton, Zemoga, Clickny, Media News
DJ Edgerton

Traditional interruption-based marketing is dead (or at least in severe decline) and anything an agency creates on behalf of a brand must give the consumer real value.

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In a Social Networking World, What's the Future of TV?

Henry Jenkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Glee, Television, Transmedia, Joss Whedon, Digital Downloads, Download Movie, Youtube, Online Tv, Download Tv, Online Television, Technology News
Henry Jenkins

Television may be in the hands of a different kind of network -- Facebook or Twitter rather than ABC or Fox. In a world shaped by social networks, if it doesn't spread, it's dead.

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