Transmedia Change: Pedagogy and Practice for Socially-Concerned Transmedia Stories

This book explores the use of design principles, design thinking, and empathy research techniques in university and public settings to plan and ethically target socially-concerned transmedia stories and evaluate their success through user experience testing methods. It is relevant to researchers and university teachers in journalism, documentary filmmaking, education, and activism.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 250 pages
Publication date: 29 January 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

All media industries continue to adapt to a dispersed, diverse, and dilettante mediascape, where reaching a large global audience may be easy, but communicating with a decisive and engaged public is more challenging. This challenge is arguably most difficult for communicators who work to engage a public with reality rather than escape. The chapters in this volume outline the pedagogy and practice of design, empathy research methods for story development, transmedia logics for socially concerned stories, development of community engagement and the embrace of collective narrative, art and science research collaboration, the role of mixed and virtual reality in prosocial communication, ethical audience targeting, and user experience testing for storytelling campaigns. Each broad topic includes case examples and full case studies of each stage in production.

Offering a detailed exploration of a fast-emerging area, this book will be of great relevance to researchers and university teachers of socially concerned transmedia storytelling in fields such as journalism, documentary filmmaking, education, and activism.

Weight: 490g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367714376