This book examines truthfulness in transmedia practices, particularly in relation to scientific knowledge and the mediation of our perception of the world. In light of deepening environmental, political, and humanitarian crises, the role of transmedia storytelling in mainstream and social media is paramount. Harnessing such ideas as ecomedia literacy, the book looks at the development of new ecologies, which may be utopian or dystopian depending on our critical approach to texts. As such, it draws attention to how transmedia practices can be potentially dangerous, but also instrumental in constructing positive attitudes, educating professionals, offering outlets to alternative sources of information and, by extension, promoting democracy

Explores truthfulness in transmedia practices Approaches transmedia from the standpoint of the semiotics of culture and treats it as a core function of culture Defines transmedia in contradistinction to other relevant terms, particularly the term intermedia

Autorentext
Vasso Giannakopoulou is Assistant Professor at the Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus, Cyprus. Elin Sütiste is Associate Professor at the Department of Semiotics, University of Tartu, Estonia.

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Part 1: Transmedia and Truthfulness in Scientific Texts.-1. Zdzislaw Wasik. Epistemology as a Transmedial Cartography of Human Wordlview.-2. Lars Ellestrom . Representing the Anthropocene: Transmediation of Narratives and Truthfulness from Science to Feature Film.-3. Leticia Vitral. Modelling as an Intermedial, Aesthetic and Epistemic Phenomenon.-Part 2: Transmedia and Truthfulness in Politics.-4. Thomas Leitch. Fiction and Nonfiction in a Post-Truth World.-5. Vittoria Rubini. De-centering the Centre, Emphasizing Periphery. How Non-linearity Affects Power Relations in Transmedial Narratives.-Part 3: Transmedia and the Shaping of Opinion.-6. Elzbieta Magdalena Wasik. Shaping the Multiple Identities of the Dialogical Self Through Transmedia Intertextuality.-7. Raili Marling. Transmediation of Affect: Don DeLillo's and David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis.-Part 4: The Metatextual and Paratextual Framing of Reality.-8. Peeter Torop: TBC.-9. Sara Bedard-Goulet. Transmedial Practices and Reader Response: An Example of Moving Images.-10. Maarja Ojamaa. Some Methodological Steps Toward a Transmedial Analysis of Culture.-Part 5: Transmedia as a Powerful Tool.-11. Aleksandr Fadeev and Alexandra Milyakina. Learning and Teaching Estonian LIterary Classics with Transmedia: Cultural Semiotic Approach.-12. Sasha Costanza-Chock. TBC-13. Tatjana Menise and Merit Rickberg. The Potential of the Transmedial Approach to Tackle the Environmental Crisis.