Transmedia: Storia, memoria e narrazioni attraverso i media

Translated title of the contribution: Italian Transmedia Storytelling: Stories, memory and storytelling across media

Clodagh Brook (Editor), Emanuela Patti (Editor)

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Abstract

The advent of digital has contributed to changing profoundly the epistemology of contemporary society, questioning the Gutenbergian system of creation and transmission of knowledge. While the digital is already a lively area of research across a wide range of fields, there is an almost complete absence of sustained analytical and theoretical material on the phenomenon of digital narrative in Italy. This is peculiar as Italy has been home to some of the most significant international digital phenomena, from the writer’s collective Wu Ming to the explosion of graphic novels and the activist use of the Internet in a country in which access to traditional media has often been blocked by political players. Italy thus emerges as one of the most avant-garde and experimental countries in its creative use of the digital. The first merit of this book is to create new areas of research in the Italian context that contribute to the formation of discussion and evaluation of contemporary digital narrative practices. The edited volume uses the early interdisciplinary methodologies developed from the AHRC Interdisciplinary Italy project (2012-2018) and is composed of two sections, the first (Stories: Recounting and Narration beyond the Object-Book) concentrates on transmedial fiction writing and the second (History and Activism: Recounting and Memory) investigates the relationship between transmediality, social networks and socio-political activism. Being the first book published of its kind, it has attracted widespread critical interest and has opened debate on the place of Italian transmedial practices in discussions of narrative practices, activism, authorship, memory, hybridity, literary experimentalism, and participatory culture.
Translated title of the contributionItalian Transmedia Storytelling: Stories, memory and storytelling across media
Original languageItalian
Place of PublicationItaly
PublisherMimesis International
Number of pages129
Publication statusPublished - 2015

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