Call for papers: "Transmedia Literacy. From Storytelling to Intercreativity in the Era of Distributed Authorship"

"Transmedia Literacy. From Storytelling to Intercreativity in the Era of Distributed Authorship"



Date: Tuesday, 10th December 2013

Place: Media-TIC building, 7th floor, William J. Mitchell Hall, Roc Boronat street, 117, 08018 Barcelona 





We invite researchers, scholars, PhD candidates, experts and practitioners to submit papers, case studies, and transmedia projects for presentation at the seminar.



Possible topics include but are not limited to:

  

    - Cultural Production, Crossmedia and New Authorship

    - Narrative Models and Processes of Transmedia Storytelling

    - Theories of Fiction/Representation

    - Reception Theory in Gender and Media Studies

    - Digital Rhetoric and Information Aesthetics in Transmedia Storytelling

    - Participatory Cultures and Fan Cultures

    - Transmedia and Education

    - Crowdfunding/crowdsourcing Productions

    - Political Economy of Transmedia

    - Screenwriting and Semiotics of New Media



Interdisciplinary contributions are especially welcome.



Accepted abstracts will be presented in the parallel sessions of the seminar and full papers will be published in the proceedings of the seminar. The board committee of the International Journal of Trasmedia Literacy will provide a selection of the best papers to be published in the forthcoming International Journal of Transmedia Literacy.



Abstracts (in English and a maximum of 400 words) should be sent to the email addressinfotransmedialiteracy [ punto ] net (info[at]transmedialiteracy[dot]net) no later than November the 15th by 23.00. They should outline the research/project and provide objectives and/or hypotheses, methods, and (expected) findings/results. A short bio of the author(s) should be sent as well.



You can download a model for the submission at:

http://www.transmedialiteracy.net/sem01/abstract_TL.doc

TIMELINE



    - November 15, 2013: abstract submission (400 words max) to infotransmedialiteracy [ punto ] net (info[at]transmedialiteracy[dot]net)

    - November 21, 2013: acceptance of the abstract

    - November 29, 2013: registration for presenters

    - December 5, 2013: registration for participants

    - December 10, 2013: day of the seminar



For any question: infotransmedialiteracy [ punto ] net (info[at]transmedialiteracy[dot]net)

Website: http://www.transmedialiteracy.net/seminar2013/



For more information, please consult the conference website or the document attached.