Transmedia Frictions
Kinder, Marsha / McPherson, Tara / Hayles, N. Katherine / Manovich, Lev / Tsivian, Yuri / Zimmermann, Patricia R. / Weinbren, Grahame / Bassett, Caroline / Anderson, Steven F. / Mamber, Stephen David / Branigan, Edward Richard / Hess, John / Crane, David / Hansen, Mark B.N. / Willis, Holly / Gomez Pena, Guillermo / Lozano-Hemmer, Rafael / Gray, Herman / Gordon, Eric Jason / Venegas, Cristina / Caldwell, John Thornton “As someone who attended and participated in the 1999 Interactive Fictions conference, which in many ways consolidated more than a decade of theorizing about and experimenting with digital media, I was uncertain what to expect from Transmedia Frictions. What I found was a rich collection that looks both backward to reconstruct the paths not taken in digital theory and forward to imagine alternative ways of framing issues of medium specificity,...