Well,I’ve just undertaken the only kind of facelift I’ll ever have:a digital and conceptual one. Firstly,the digital:I’ve migrated to WordPress. So,you’ll see alot more functionality,like categories on posts and (coming soon) subscription. I have to finish the categories,and add more resources,but there are plenty of new items to feast your cross-media minds on. Also,I haven’t been able to migrate the comments (which isn’t a big deal as I don’t have many!). I’ll be entering them manually.
The second facelift:conceptual. After many months contemplating the shift I’ve made the framing switch from ‘cross-media storytelling’to ‘cross-media entertainment’(CME). These are the reasons:
- The phenomenon I’m looking at involves properties|franchises|works that have components that are traditional narratives &games. ‘Storytelling’implies I’m looking at the traditional narratives only.
- CME are experienced/realised by audiences through narrativisation and gameplay. Once again,storytelling implies the former only.
- CME puts the focus on the form of ‘entertainment’in general.
- CME is more accessible for industries and disciplines.
I will keep the crossmediastorytelling.com URL,I still love it,but if you use that address it will forward you here. Also,I should note that the narrative aspects of CME will be the focus of my academic research (my PhD). So ‘polymorphic narrative‘is still relevant too. Hope you enjoy the new-look site and resources. Please feel free to contact me with your own suggestions for inclusion.
