Transmedia Multimedia Essay

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Transmedia storytelling is incessantly integrated in network society. However, the same argument cannot be made about its effectiveness in education. This is likely because education is still perceived as a traditional practice and although convergence culture has been a revelation in world of digital media, the power of multimodal education through transmedia is not seen as a substantiate substitute for outdated practices in academic pedagogies. This paper will analyze and investigate the role transmedia storytelling in education and its practices especially with the proliferation of contemporary digital media technology.

According to (Jenkins, 2016), “’Transmedia,’ by itself, simply describes some kind …show more content…

Transmedia storytelling does not just rely on new digital media; in fact, projectors, written papers, drawings and illustrations are some examples of media that play significant roles in transmedia storytelling experience. The sophistication of media has little effect on convergence, it has to do with the brains of individual consumer how they interact with others socially (Jenkins, 2009). It must also be noted that 21st century learners are disenchanted by traditional forms of learning and prefer a combination of both entertainment and education. For example, Inanimate Alice first introduced to classrooms in 2005, is an ongoing fictional digital novel where students are taken to a digital journey with Alice. It is an interactive multimodal form of transmedia and students learn different languages, cultures and social exercises. Similar practices have already taken place in kindergarten as young students and even educators are learning how to be media literate. The internet is rapidly playing a significant role in children’s and young people’s life as source for retrieving information to support school work (Livingston & Bober, 2004). However, there are limitations here as sufficient studies have not been done to effectively substantiate an improvement in learning through the implementation of transmedia storytelling in

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