Transmedia Needs a New Name

Flint Dille Transmedia Panel was fascinating. Great people on it. Something is about to pop, and I'd love to be there when it happens. Has anybody had any great experiences in new types of entertainment (not a good new movie, I mean doing something you've never done before) in the last couple years?

Yesterday at 5:48am · Comment ·

Flint Dille

Mine is probably Geocaching.

Yesterday at 5:58am ·

Lee Sheldon

Writing and designing 3 ARGs. We used geocaching in the last two. Since they occur in real time in the real world anything can happen, so you're constantly creating and recreating to stay one step ahead of the players. Challenging, scary and soooo much fun!

Yesterday at 6:45am ·

Flint Dille

Wow... Love to talk to you about the ARG's some time. That's an area I find extremely interesting these days. For everybody else, an ARG is an Alternate Reality Game. In my mind, its a game you play in the real world often enhanced by a smart phone.

Yesterday at 6:59am ·

Michael Chase Walker

designed and patented a children's book format that enhances and stimulates a child's interpretive skills.

Yesterday at 7:03am ·

Flint Dille

Great. How's it work?

Yesterday at 10:20am ·

Christy Marx

Got to create an original, transmedia IP for an MMOG. So sad the project died. :P

Yesterday at 6:06pm ·

Rick Giolito

I always thought Transmedia was kind of an annoyingly exclusive term. I can remember the day I first heard it, six years ago. I was like, huh? Whats the latest definition?

11 hours ago ·

Flint Dille

Yeah. I don't particularly like the term. Its kind of like information superhighway... Way too complex for the definition. Actually, that's kind of a fun word topic. Why do some terms survive and others don't?

7 hours ago ·

Flint Dille

If, by Transmedia, we're trying to say something that is books, movies, games, TV, social interactive fiction, ARG... What is a word for that? Ubiquimedia?

6 hours ago ·

Michael Chase Walker

I thought of it as new media than transcends old paradigm stuff... in all mediums... The I pod transforms Old media radio disc players I pad with women's sanitary napkins--- that sort of thang...

3 hours ago ·

Flint Dille

It seems that it must be, in some ways, interactive... It must grow... At best, it allows consumer participation (fan fic, etc.).

3 hours ago ·

Michael Chase Walker

Interactivity may be the most defining attribute for New Media in all mediums...

3 hours ago ·

Flint Dille

Let's find the right word. You can be passive and just watch the movies, read the books. You can be active. You can be FANatical or casual. Does the word have something to do with pliability, navagability... It would be very kool if we could crack this.

2 hours ago ·

Christy Marx

I agree, I don't like "transmedia" as a word much, but it's the current buzzword, so I use it. I don't have any brilliant ideas to replace it, though.

Cross-platform, cross-media, panmedia aren't much better. ;P

about an hour ago ·

Flint Dille

Immersive,invasive, Ubiquitous, media-fungible, ambient -- all wrong, but might lead to something better. Or, what's a word we can make up that doesn't have any relation to this.

4 minutes ago ·

Flint Dille

There's also something I just thought of that I've never heard anybody really talk about. Franchises can become Trans-sensory. James Bond tastes like martinis, Travis McGee tasted like steaks. Raymond Chandler 'feels' like the Santana Winds (I'm done with Santa Anna)... Santana just looks better and some of Carlos Santana's music feels like the Santana winds, anyways. Sometimes in W