1st Edition

Transmedia Selves Identity and Persona Creation in the Age of Mobile and Multiplatform Media

Edited By James Dalby, Matthew Freeman Copyright 2024
212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the mediated shift in the contemporary human condition, focusing on the ways in which we synthesise with media content in daily life, essentially transmediating ourselves into new forms and (re)creating ourselves across media. Across an international roster of essays, this book establishes a transdisciplinary theory for the ‘transmedia self’, exploring how technological... Read more

Story of the (Virtual) Self: Transmedial Narrative Construction through Social Media

Usage

Jeeshan Gazi

2 Personal Storytelling: A Semiotics Approach to Constructing Identities across Media

Paolo Bertetti and Giuseppe Segreto

3 Professional Transmedia Selves: Finding a Place for Enterprise Social Media

Christoffer Bagger

4 The Post-Digital Self: How Transmedia Dissolves the Boundaries of Work and

Tourism

Karin Fast and André Jansson

PART II: Technologies of the Self

5 The Transtemporal Self: Transmedia, Self, and Time.

James Dalby

6 Crossing Space-Time Action: Digital Self-tracking Technologies and the

Zero-Dimensionality of the Transmedia Self

Jenna Ng

7 Geotagging the Self: Analysing the Locative Dimension of Constructed Transmedia

Identities

Milton Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez

8 Made in My Own Image: Co-Produced Fantasy and the Politics of Play

Chris Campanioni

PART III: Politics of the Self

9 Trans, Media and [In]Visibility: Trans Representation in the Transmedia Era

Kaylee Koss

10 The Manosphere: Incel as Transmedial Construction

Emily Pratten

11 #PrayforAmazonia: Transmedia Mobilisation within National, Transnational and

International Identities

Geane Carvalho Alzamora, Renira Rampazzo Gambarato and Lorena Tárcia

12 The Kabir Project: Using Transmedia Work to Disrupt Right-Wing Narratives of

Othering

Fathima Nizaruddin

Biography

James Dalby is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Gloucestershire in the UK. He specialises in a range of disciplines within the creative and tech industries, including XR and immersive (virtual reality, Web3 etc.), AI, transmedia, cinematography, and visual special effects, and has published and spoken internationally on immersive and XR, transmedia, social technologies, and media economics. His work also includes the development of pioneering undergraduate curricula, in which disruptive methodologies and workflows, such as Design Thinking, are structurally embedded as part of an overall paradigm. James is currently undertaking a PhD studying correlations between the use of social, immersive, and Web3 technologies, and perceived chronoceptive distortion, and has further interests in tech, Philosophy, posthumanism, and transhumanism.

Matthew Freeman is Reader in Multiplatform Media at Bath Spa University, where he is the Research Lead for Film and Media and Co-director of The Centre for Media Research in the Bath School of Art, Film and Media. Matthew led the university's Communication, Cultural and Media Studies submission to REF2021, and is currently the Course Leader for the the BA (Hons) Media Communications degree. Matthew is the Founder and Director of Immersive Promotion Design Ltd., a new breed of R&D-led marketing consultancy that supports virtual and augmented reality creatives and businesses to better communicate with their audiences about the magic of immersive content. The company is based at The Studio in Bath, Bath Spa University's new enterprise and innovation hub for creative technology.