Of course, it’s a joy ride! Let’s be grateful to HBO for the creativity of its teams.
HBO’s The Cube is not transmedia content, however, it’s a form of narration that would be interesting to take a closer took at: transmedia stories could happily adopt some of its concepts.
This extract on negative capability and migratory cues is based on impressive developed by G long in his thesis
“The term negative capability was first used in a letter from the poet John Keats in 1817. In it, he writes : that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts without any irritable [...]
Drawing on G. A. Long’s dissertation (yep, there are dissertations on transmedia!), “Transmedia Storytelling” (May 2007), we can attempt to define transmedia content according to the following criteria:
- A story whose chapters are distributed on various media (TV, film, web, mobile etc.)
- Every chapter is conceived specifically for the media distributing it (hence, allowing for [...]
