'We're all a bunch of nutters!': the production dynamics of Alternate reality games
Alternate reality games (ARGs) combine transmedia and pervasive storytelling, layering fictional narratives onto real world spaces and raising a number of production challenges in the process. This article will consider the key professional skills, working attitudes, and relationships that sit behin...
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| description | Alternate reality games (ARGs) combine transmedia and pervasive storytelling, layering fictional narratives onto real world spaces and raising a number of production challenges in the process. This article will consider the key professional skills, working attitudes, and relationships that sit behind ARGs’ complex narratives by focusing on a case study example, Nottingham-based The Malthusian Paradox (TMP). It will focus on how flexibility and trust were manifested throughout TMP’s production process and shaped the dynamics of the production team. In doing so, the article will argue that emerging transmedia narrative forms that exploit the potential of digital technologies are reshaping working practices within the creative industries and requiring practitioners to evolve and revaluate their roles within the creative process. |
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| spelling | nottingham-344692020-05-04T16:52:21Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34469/ 'We're all a bunch of nutters!': the production dynamics of Alternate reality games Elizabeth, Evans Alternate reality games (ARGs) combine transmedia and pervasive storytelling, layering fictional narratives onto real world spaces and raising a number of production challenges in the process. This article will consider the key professional skills, working attitudes, and relationships that sit behind ARGs’ complex narratives by focusing on a case study example, Nottingham-based The Malthusian Paradox (TMP). It will focus on how flexibility and trust were manifested throughout TMP’s production process and shaped the dynamics of the production team. In doing so, the article will argue that emerging transmedia narrative forms that exploit the potential of digital technologies are reshaping working practices within the creative industries and requiring practitioners to evolve and revaluate their roles within the creative process. University of Southern California, Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism 2014-08-18 Article PeerReviewed Elizabeth, Evans (2014) 'We're all a bunch of nutters!': the production dynamics of Alternate reality games. International Journal of Communication, 8 . pp. 2323-2343. ISSN 1932-8036 alternate reality games creative labor media work trust production cultures pervasive gaming http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/2605 |
| spellingShingle | alternate reality games creative labor media work trust production cultures pervasive gaming Elizabeth, Evans 'We're all a bunch of nutters!': the production dynamics of Alternate reality games |
| title | 'We're all a bunch of nutters!': the production dynamics of Alternate reality games |
| title_full | 'We're all a bunch of nutters!': the production dynamics of Alternate reality games |
| title_fullStr | 'We're all a bunch of nutters!': the production dynamics of Alternate reality games |
| title_full_unstemmed | 'We're all a bunch of nutters!': the production dynamics of Alternate reality games |
| title_short | 'We're all a bunch of nutters!': the production dynamics of Alternate reality games |
| title_sort | 'we're all a bunch of nutters!': the production dynamics of alternate reality games |
| topic | alternate reality games creative labor media work trust production cultures pervasive gaming |
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