Video game has become over the years an essential media in the creation of fictional worlds. These digital realms offer interactive and immersive experiences that transform the way we consume these worlds.
Conférences
Worlds and Video Games: the Case of Japan
06/06/2013 - 11:45 - 12:30
Practices of World Building International Conference
Conférencier(s):
Picard, Martin
How did the ‘Whoniverse’ Begin? Hyperdiegesis and Trans-transmedia
06/07/2013 - 14:00 - 14:45
Practices of World Building International Conference
Conférencier(s):
Hills, Matt
This paper revisits a concept from Fan Cultures (Hills 2002): ‘hyperdiegesis’. I defined the term there as a textual quality inciting fans’ involvement in cult media.
06/06/2013 - 15:00 - 15:45
Practices of World Building International Conference
Conférencier(s):
Goyet, Florence
The general question addressed is whether fan culture can--as oral-derived epic at its best--be the means of real political and ethical innovation. The participative nature of both fan culture and oral tradition invites this parallel.
Narrative ecosystems: a multidisciplinary approach to media worlds
06/06/2013 - 10:45 - 11:30
Practices of World Building International Conference
Conférencier(s):
Pescatore, Guglielmo
Inhabiting a narrative ecosystem is a distributed and diversified experience, that generate participation, urging for new consumption. Narration does not have a unique irradiation centre anymore, but it tends to develop along different routes.
Questions de méthode. Le sociologue face à l’industrie culturelle et à ses métamorphoses contemporaines
06/07/2013 - 10:00 - 10:45
Practices of World Building International Conference
Conférencier(s):
Leveratto, Jean-Marc
La communication vise à interroger les problèmes méthodologiques et épistémologiques que pose l’observation sociologique du panorama audiovisuel contemporain.
Of Superheroes and Celluloid: Allegory, Truth, and Technology in the Dark Knight Trilogy
06/07/2013 - 15:45 - 16:30
Practices of World Building International Conference
Conférencier(s):
Jeffries, Dru
Jay David Bolter’s article “Transference and Transparency: Digital Technology and the Remediation of Cinema” identifies a “cyberphobia” that emerged in films of the 1990s, just as digital technologies were gaining widespread acceptance in the industry (and, indeed, as blockbusters increasingly began to rely on them to create theretofore unimaginable spectacle
World-building and Gendered Fan Practices
06/07/2013 - 11:45 - 12:30
Practices of World Building International Conference
Conférencier(s):
Penley, Constance
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Conférence de Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
04/12/2013 - 16:00
Série de conférences 2012-2013
Arthemis is Pleased to present a lecture by
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (Brown University)
Habitual New Media