We are the Borg (in a good way): Mapping The Development Of New Kinds Of Being And Knowing Through Inter- and Trans-Mediality — Anne Cranny Francis

Aug 6, 2014 | Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Film, Television, Volume 24

Abstract: Digital technologies have enabled new ways of communicating and relating to others and this has fundamental consequences for being and for meaning. In this paper I map the development of concepts of intermediality and transmediality that are used to describe...

‘God Hates Fangs’: Gay Rights As Transmedia Story in True Blood — Holly Randell-Moon

Aug 6, 2014 | fan culture, Film, Television, Volume 24

Abstract: In this paper I examine the television program True Blood’s allusions to gay liberation in terms of the biopolitical and neoliberal implications of consuming civil rights as a transmedia story. In the program, vampires have ‘outed’ themselves to the...

Intermediality and Interventions: Applying Intermediality Frameworks to Reality Television and Microblogs — Rosemary Overell

Aug 6, 2014 | Digital Media/Internet, Television, Volume 24

Abstract: This article explores the usefulness of ‘intermediality’ approaches for understanding contemporary reality television. Through a case study of Intervention, it is proposed that intermedial frameworks illuminate reality television’s function as a “dream of...

Editorial: Intermediations — Kevin Fisher & Holly Randell-Moon

Aug 6, 2014 | Animation, Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Film, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 24

This special issue developed out the Intermediations symposium held at the University of Otago on May 31, 2013,[1] and on the invitation of keynote speaker and Refractory Editor, Angela Ndalianis. Presenters at this symposium who have contributed essays here include...

Volume 23, 2014

Jun 26, 2014 | Browse Past Volumes, fan culture, Film, Games, Television, Uncategorized, Volume 23

Themed Issue: Transmedia Horror Edited by Jessica Balanzategui & Naja Later   Contents 1. The Comfort and Disquiet of Transmedia Horror in Higurashi: When They Cry (Higurashi no naku koro ni) – Brian Ruh 2. Jodi Arias in the Public Sphere: Rhetorics of...

Defining Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance: Crossing Boundaries of Genre, Media, Self and Other in New Supernatural Worlds – Leigh M. McLennon

Jun 26, 2014 | fan culture, Print Media, Television, Uncategorized, Urban Space, Volume 23

The Emergence of Paranormal Romance and Urban Fantasy Although it emerged only in the 1990s, the urban fantasy and paranormal romance genre now exerts a powerful influence on representations of monsters and the supernatural in popular culture.  Over the last 25 years...