Digital Writing: Transmedia versus Storytelling?

Gilles Bonnet, Pour une poétique numérique. Littérature et internet . Paris, Hermann, 2017 ISBN : 9782705694975 The new book by Gilles Bonnet on the poetics of digital writing –not in general but as an artistic practice– is an absolute must-read. It gives a well-informed, jargon-free and attractively written overview of the contemporary scene, striking a right balance between theoretical reflection…

Literature outside the book and transmediality

Ceci est mon corps (“This Is My Body”), an expression with strong biblical connotations, was the title of a three days gathering at the University of Montpellier 3 on the theme of the literary performance, more specifically on the performance of writers on stage (1). Mixing traditional communications, various forms of interactions between academics and authors, and a very rich…

One Story World, but Two Story Spaces?

The research in transmedia narrative, which is just a small part of the larger field of transmediality, often falls prey to a kind of “essentializing” gesture. Transmedia narrative, that is the simultaneous materialization of a story (including a story world) in a wide range of different media, is then seen as a new, theoretically all-encompassing form of narrative that brings…

¿Para cuándo la política transmedia?

Volviendo varias décadas atrás, la televisión ha irrumpido en la campaña de diciembre situándose en el centro de toda la estrategia comunicativa y rememorando más el poder que le otorgaron los teóricos de la Escuela de Toronto y del pujante determinismo tecnológico que marcó la Mass Communication Research a partir de los años 70. Y hasta tal punto hemos recurrido…