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Transmedia Storytelling

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Transmedia Storytelling is a concept that explains the distribution of media content across multiple media platforms. In a multi-layered media landscape, content is no longer confined to one medium, but rather works across media boundaries.

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Everything you never wanted to know about trolling

Article

Christine Cook

14/02/2019

9 minutes to read

Do you know what to do when you are trolled? Troll-research Chrissy Cook explains the phenomenon and gives you concrete guidelines!

Russian Doll: Television in Digital Culture

Column

Suzanne van der Beek

11/02/2019

5 minutes to read

With Russian Doll, Netflix brings us a new innovative TV show that plays with video game storytelling, social media humor, and the bending of gendered stereotypes.

How eSports became mainstream

Paper

Lucas Westphall

21/12/2018

18 minutes to read

This paper tries to uncover the reason behind the impact globalization has on eSports, the impact eSport have on globalization and how Twitch.TV helps enhance this.

Are video games increasingly mirroring globalized society?

Paper

Jady van Leusden

14/12/2018

15 minutes to read

The controversies around today's video games have provoked discussions about political correctness connected to new diverse characters.

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Red Dead Redemption 2: What’s your favorite game worth to you?

Column

Suzanne van der Beek

15/10/2018

4 minutes to read

Just two weeks before the release of Red Dead Redemption 2, we might consider whether it is worth the human costs of its developers.

Why does Steam set China as a low-price area?

Article

Yan Shen

24/09/2018

10 minutes to read

The price of buying the same game via Steam in different countries may be different, but why does Steam make this setting?

E-sports: a true phenomenon of globalization

Article

Pieter van Rhee

16/01/2018

10 minutes to read

This article analyzes the ways in which e-sports are a phenomenon of globalization.

What Pokémon Go teaches us about society

Article

Jan Blommaert

02/09/2016

4 minutes to read

There are sociological and anthropological lessons to be learned from the summer of 2016's biggest hype: Pokémon Go. A generally hidden world of popular screen culture entered the "real" public space. And disturbed it.