I got a rough video of Dr. Jenkins talking about transmedia and comics at this year’s Comic Con. Dr. Henry Jenkins talks about transmedia and comics at a Comic-Con 2011 panel. He was the last of four panelists, and he only had about 10 minutes to comment on the prior presentations. I love the fact [...]
A year ago, I stopped using the term transmedia in reference to my company and my company’s projects. I had just returned from SXSW in time to catch the first ‘Transmedia, Hollywood’ conference, and the cross-currents going on in the transmedia space forced me to re-evaluate my use of the term. The result was that [...]
After a few months of deliberation, today I scraped the word “transmedia” from my company’s website. I didn’t do it to make some point or start a protest, and this post isn’t a manifesto, a call to action, a damnation, or an act of praise (it’s not likely to receive wide readership, anyway, much less [...]
I’ve been circling this concept for a while, mostly in the context of co-creating value with fans through a collaborative approach to commercial entertainment. The more I pushed around the word “storytelling,” the less I liked it. With a growing sense of discontent, I realized that the word connotes certain limitations that make it a [...]
I recently viewed a presentation by The Alchemists (here’s their blog) which included a mashup they made from a Brazilian film. I’ve never seen the film, but having watched the mashup – a hilarious sendup in which the characters are searching for the mysterious “Henry Jenkins” – I have a definite perspective about the original [...]