[ecrea] CFP and Seminar: Transmedia Literacy. From Storytelling to Intercreativity in the Era of Distributed Authorship.

Transmedia Literacy.
From Storytelling to Intercreativity in the Era of Distributed Authorship.

The research Program in Digital Culture (IN3 — Universitat Oberta de 
Catalunya) is organizing a one-day international seminar on "Transmedia 
Literacy. From Storytelling to Intercreativity in the Era of Distributed 
Authorship" in Barcelona on December 10, 2013

We invite researchers, scholars, PhD candidates, experts and 
practitioners to submit papers, case studies, and transmedia projects 
for presentation at the seminar.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

- Cultural Production, Crossmedia and New Authorship
- Narrative Models and Processes of Transmedia Storytelling
- Theories of Fiction/Representation
- Reception Theory in Gender and Media Studies
- Digital Rhetoric and Information Aesthetics in Transmedia Storytelling
- Participatory Cultures and Fan Cultures
- Transmedia and Education
- Crowdfunding/crowdsourcing Productions
- Political Economy of Transmedia
- Screenwriting and Semiotics of New Media

Interdisciplinary contributions are especially welcome.

Accepted abstracts will be presented in the parallel sessions of the 
seminar and full papers will be published in the proceedings of the 
seminar. The board committee of the International Journal of Trasmedia 
Literacy will provide a selection of the best papers to be published in 
the forthcoming International Journal of Transmedia Literacy.

THEME RATIONALE

Forms of fiction and literature underwent a process of disembodiment and 
cross-fertilization during the revolution from the Gutenberg Galaxy — 
printed paper, mass distribution — to the McLuhan Galaxy — new media, 
hypertext, cooperative writing — (Castells, 2003). The dimension of 
literacy has moved from a semiotically-measured geometry (De Saussure, 
1916; Hjelmslev, 1969) to a dislocation and a deconstruction of contents 
and channels that give expression to new products (Derrida, 1974; 
Landow, 1994; Bolter & Grusin, 1999, ). The impact of social media on 
narratology has redefined the meaning of readership and authorship. The 
author not only loses his/her traditional role, but becomes an icon of 
himself/herself, a collective-minded producer that is self-perceived 
through the extro-flexed eye of the amniotic network in which he/she 
defines his/her narrative experience (De Kerckhove, 2003). Transmedia 
culture defines a new cross-networked and amniotic literacy, considering 
that we are not facing a simple adaptation of different narrative forms 
from one media to another: different media and languages participate and 
contribute to the construction of a transmedia environment (Scolari, 2009).

This working seminar seeks to shed light on transmedia literacy 
according to the epistemological crisis of authorship and the new 
dimension of participation and relationship offered by both the Web and 
new media. The seminar will offer keynote speeches and talks to examine 
specific case studies. Moving from the state of the art, the aim is to 
investigate the interdisciplinary relations in the field of transmedia 
literacy, in order to favour a pattern recognition about theories, 
technologies, and social dimensions of the phenomena to offer a critical 
toolkit to understand and map out the emerging knowledge and practices 
created by this new field.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

- Derrick de Kerckhove (IN3 — Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain)
Connective Intelligence from Writing to the Web

- Asún López-Varela (Harvard University, USA)
Spatio-temporal Metamorphosis and the Ecologies of Representation: >From 
Analogue to Digital Formats

- Raine Koskimaa (University of Jyväskylä, Finland)
Playing with Time in New Media Fiction

- Carlos Scolari (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain)
Towards an Archeology of Transmedia Storytelling


SUBMISSION AND SELECTION PROCESS

Abstracts (in English and a maximum of 400 words) should be sent to the 
email address (info /at/ transmedialiteracy.net) no later than November the 
15th by 23.00. They should outline the research/project and provide 
objectives and/or hypotheses, methods, and (expected) findings/results. 
A short bio of the author(s) should be sent as well.

You can download a model for the submission at:
http://www.transmedialiteracy.net/sem01/abstract_TL.doc

Authors of the accepted abstracts will be asked to submit full papers 
for the publication on the proceedings of the seminar. Full papers will 
also receive a double blind peer-review by the International Journal of 
Transmedia Literacy and a selection of the manuscripts will be published 
in the forthcoming issue 2013/2014.

IJTL Board: Derrick de Kerckhove, Marsha Kinder, Raine Koskimaa, George 
Landow, Paul Levinson, Asún López-Varela, Lev Manovich, Nick Montfort, 
Marcos Novak, Massimo Parodi, Bruce W. Powe, Marie-Laure Ryan, Alexandra 
Saemmer, Carlos Scolari, Susana Tosca, Alessandro Zinna.

REGISTRATION

The registration for presenters and participants will be FREE: the 
organization and the partners will cover the registration fees, which 
will include a welcome bag, certificate of participation, and coffee breaks.

- Presenters have to register by November 29, 2013.
- Participants have to register by December 5, 2013.

Due to our policy of open and free participation, seating is limited. 
Please register to the seminar in advance at:
http://transmedialiteracy.eventzilla.net/

VENUE

The seminar will be held at IN3 — Internet Interdisciplinary Institute 
(Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), c/o Mediatic Building, Roc Boronat 
117, Barcelona, 7th floor on December 10. Detailed program of the 
seminar will be available on November 22 at 
http://www.transmedialiteracy.net/seminar2013/

TIMELINE

- November 15, 2013: abstract submission (400 words max) to 
(info /at/ transmedialiteracy.net)
- November 21, 2013: acceptance of the abstract
- November 29, 2013: registration for presenters
- December 5, 2013: registration for participants
- December 10, 2013: day of the seminar

For any question: (info /at/ transmedialiteracy.net)
Website: http://www.transmedialiteracy.net/seminar2013/

Partners of the event:
IN3 - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
York University
Storycode Barcelona
International Journal of Transmedia Literacy


We hope to see you soon in Barcelona…

Digital Culture Research Team

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