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Your Life Is A Transmedia Experience

Social Creature:  '“Transmedia” has become the new buzzword for multi-platform narratives, but in the digital age, transmedia isn’t just how we consume entertainment narratives, it’s how we experience the narrative of our lives.'


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USA Network Exec Jesse Redniss Explains How New Game Engages Psych Fans (Q&A)

USA Network Exec Jesse Redniss Explains How New Game Engages Psych Fans (Q&A) | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

John Gaudiosi:  "Building on the success of the Emmy-nominated, fan favorite HashTag Killer, SocialSector.usanetwork.com centers around an online reality competition in which contestants are sequestered in an unknown location and one contestant is voted off each week."

The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:

A great look at how lessons learnt from Hash Tag Killer informed the development of Psych's new second screen experience, The S#cial Sector.

Debbie Elicksen (LION)'s curator insight, February 26, 12:00 PM

Love the name #Hashtag Killer

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Coincident.TV Is “CREATE”-ing Second Screen Transmedia Producers Out of Everyone [Beta Invites]

Coincident.TV Is “CREATE”-ing Second Screen Transmedia Producers Out of Everyone [Beta Invites] | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Desdemona Bandini:  "Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV" ...

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Reimagining the timeline: behind our Second Screen web app

Reimagining the timeline: behind our Second Screen web app | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

The Guardian: "Pulling together the vast mass of Olympics-related updates - blog posts, tweets, pictures, results, and more - in a single app for tablet created a bunch of design challenges."

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Your Future TV Is Not About Tele-Vision

Your Future TV Is Not About Tele-Vision | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Kit Eaton: "Call it remote viewing, if you're a sci-fi type, but "television" has until very recently meant one thing only: It's a one-way window into another world. That's very swiftly about to change" ...

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NBC's 'Grimm' Embraces the Second Screen [EXCLUSIVE]

NBC's 'Grimm' Embraces the Second Screen [EXCLUSIVE] | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Allegra Tepper: 'NBC Publishing hopes that the ebook won’t just provide a supplement to the show, but will create an “entirely new ‘second-screen’ experience.” The company hopes to pave the way for television interactivity, and “bridge the gap between fan and screen.”'

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A nation of audience participation

A nation of audience participation | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Tim Adler: "More and more people are watching live-entertainment television shows while simultaneously interacting with the content on mobile devices. But could 'second-screen' viewing also work for documentaries?"


Image: "Channel 4’s Embarrassing Bodies pioneered audience participation by encouraging viewers to take online tests"

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What kind of second screen viewer are you?

What kind of second screen viewer are you? | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Cory Bergman: "Not every TV viewer is the same, and that also goes for viewers who engage with the second screen" ...

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Making great TV even better: The BBC's approach to companion experiences

Making great TV even better: The BBC's approach to companion experiences | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Victoria Jaye: "As more and more internet connected devices enter the living room, we can extend entertainment beyond broadcast and the TV screen, bringing our shows to life for audiences in ever more exciting ways.


Our editorial approach to companion experiences is three fold:

  • Build on existing audience needs and behaviour
  • Go beyond broadcast
  • Drive creative renewal and innovation"

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3 Ways the Second Screen is Shaping the Future of Television

3 Ways the Second Screen is Shaping the Future of Television | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
The second screen—whether it be your laptop, tablet, or smart phone—is changing the way audiences watch and actually interact with the programs they watch.

 

[A look at The Voice, The Grammy Awards and WGN America.]

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The Race For The Second Screen: Five Apps That Are Shaping Social TV

The Race For The Second Screen: Five Apps That Are Shaping Social TV | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
It’s easy to understand why 2012 is shaping up to be the year of social TV. Consumers are turning to the so-called second screen like never before...

 

[The first in a series of articles on the world of social TV looks at Shazam, GetGlue, Miso, IntoNow and Zeebox.]

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The second screen explained: What it is and how it works

The second screen explained: What it is and how it works | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Adam Poltrack:  "You've probably been hearing a lot about the "second screen" lately, but do you understand what it is and what it means for the future of televised entertainment?"

The Digital Rocking Chair's insight:

A straightforward, yet in-depth, explanation of the second screen "phenomenon".


Tags:  Multiscreen, Second Screen, Social TV, Television

Nicolas Moulard - Actuonda's curator insight, December 27, 2012 6:30 AM

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Brad Tollefson's curator insight, January 3, 1:42 AM

Multitasking meets emersion...

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Twice as much TV? How networks are adapting to the second screen

Twice as much TV? How networks are adapting to the second screen | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Breeanna Hare:  "The next time you pause to watch TV try an experiment: Watch the show in its entirety without interacting with another device" ...

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Anatomy of an interactive: a look at the code behind our Second Screen

Anatomy of an interactive: a look at the code behind our Second Screen | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

The Guardian: "In this post, we look at what makes the interface of the Second Screen tick and how we tackled some of the problems which we've come across" ...

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In second screen twist, TV series debuts an iBook

In second screen twist, TV series debuts an iBook | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Natan Edelsburg: "TNT’s Leverage, which recently began it’s fifth season, has become “the first major TV series to do a behind-the scenes episode guide as an iBooks Author title" ...

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The Future Of TV Is Two Screens, One Held Firmly In Your Hands

The Future Of TV Is Two Screens, One Held Firmly In Your Hands | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Kit Eaton: "You know when you're watching TV and you have to check what films an actor's been in, or what the live score is in that baseball game you're only slightly interested in...so you grab your smartphone? That's the future."

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The Hybrid Media Challenge - Broadcasters vs the Force

The Hybrid Media Challenge - Broadcasters vs the Force | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Gary Hayes at the Media140 conference discusses: "high level challenges for broadcasters trying to truly integrate fiction, factual and entertainment with social, mobile and 2nd screen (or synch services)"

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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows gets second-screen iPad app

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows gets second-screen iPad app | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Stuart Dredge: "Second-screen apps are all the rage in the TV industry, but the idea is catching on for the film world too" ...

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Fourth Wall does the 'Dirty Work' of innovation

Fourth Wall does the 'Dirty Work' of innovation | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
"We're building a studio of the future that has the pieces in place to pick up where Hollywood is dropping the ball," said Lee. "We're saying this is what the future of storytelling looks like. This is how you engage with audiences on not just one platform, but across multiple platforms."


Rudolf Kabutz's curator insight, January 12, 3:13 AM

Future possibilities for media in communication.

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[Social TV] The Race for the Second Screen: The Show's the Thing

[Social TV] The Race for the Second Screen: The Show's the Thing | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it
Here, we take a more property-specific angle, checking in with the content creators who are building bespoke apps and, in some cases, building social interaction into the very fabric of the shows...

 

[Part one of this series can be found @scoopit http://bit.ly/wofPYP]

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