The Lord of the Who?

Elise Keeling

This article seeks to examine the impact that electronic, digital, and interactive technologies have had on the production of literary knowledge and the narrative. The research assignment will further speculate the role of ‘digitally preserving’ narrative literatures through what has been labelled ‘transmedia storytelling’. It is an investigation which assesses the integrity of a great narrative once it has been subject to the inevitable ‘tossing’ and ‘turning’ throughout the vast mediums in this universal ‘media playground’.  It will also utilise contemporary media theory to break down and conceptualise transmedia storytelling and further assess the implications of ‘participatory culture’ on the creative industries. Whilst we are only beginning to discover the exciting possibilities and capabilities which technology and digitisation hold, we would not be doing our job as inquisitive human beings if we did not speculate into the role of digitisation of the narrative.

The importance of this research is to understand exactly how much one ‘records’ and ‘preserves’ of the original narrative when the various cross-sited narratives are re-fabricated for each media platform they deploy. The article will hopefully address the convergent narratives of our time and therein give us a better understanding of digitisation and the narrative and further the assumptions which surround