The “Ontological Fibrillation” of Transmedia Storyworlds. Paratexts, Cyberworlds and Augmented Reality

Mirko Lino

doi:10.13125/2039-6597/4274

Mirko Lino University of L'Aquila

DOI: https://doi.org/10.13125/2039-6597/4274

Keywords: Transmedia Storyworld, Paratexts, Cyberworlds, Augmented Reality, The Walking Dead

Abstract

In this study we shall be trying to examine in more depth the relationships between the processes of trans-medial world-building and their “ontological fibrillation” via the affordances of recent digital technology. The analysis will be concentrating on the contribution from Augmented Reality in the ontological materialization of The Walking Dead transmedia storyworld. To this end, the dual configuration of a narrative continuum and an attractive-interactive materialization of the make-believe will be taken into consideration. This assumption will be backed up by our endeavouring to update the conceptual contributions of narratological categories, such as para-textuality, and medial categories, such as cyberworlds and the social media; the trend towards materialization of storyworlds, following in the tracks of a historical-archaeological perspective of pre-digital transmediality will be traced with reference to several scholars within transmedia studies.

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Author Biography

Mirko Lino, University of L'Aquila

Senior lecturer at University of L’Aquila – Department of Human Sciences, where he teaches “History of Cinema” and “Cinema and Media”. Among his publications the monography L’apocalisse postmoderna tra letteratura e cinema (The Postmodern Apocalypse between Literature and Cinema 2014). He is one of the editors of Imaginary Films in Literature (2016) and Sex(t)ualities. Morfologie del corpo tra visioni e narrazioni (Sex(t)ualities. Morphologies of the Body between Visions and Narrations 2018).

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