In this rapidly changing world, our social and cultural experiences are increasingly enmeshed with converging mediums, hybridised genres, evolving archetypes and storyworlds that are spread across time, space, and media platforms. While transmedia storytelling has its origins in ancient art practices and mythologies, the contemporary mediascape has provided the conditions for transmedia stories to unfold in new ways. These conditions have also generated new cultural practices, in which artists, practitioners, media producers, audience members and fans can participate in the creative elements of storyworld building, thus extending a transmedia story beyond its initial parameters. While this situation generates a new level of complexity for anyone seeking to understand media convergence and expanding storyworlds, it has also brought about exciting opportunities for students of media studies and for 'grass roots' practitioners.

This paper explores transmedia storytelling in a variety of contexts. Students will engage critically and creatively with narratives that are spread across multiple media platforms, and will develop an understanding of key concepts and frameworks.