From Synesthesias to Multimedia: How to Talk about New Media Narrative

By Eric Dean Rasmussen, 8 April, 2012
Author
Daniel Punday
Publication Type
Article or chapter in a book
Language
English
Year
Appears in
New Narratives: Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age
Pages
19-34
License
All Rights reserved
Record Status
Revisions required
Tags
new media narrative
digital narratology
multimedia
multimedia narratology
Abstract (in English)

An argument for a multimedia narratology that accounts for both relationships between media within a digital work and how work positions itself within a larger media multiplicty. Punday develops his argument in part through a reading of the multimedia aesthetic in Talan Memmott's Lexia to Perplexia.

Pull Quotes

Because of my desire to retain the history that cognitive theory can leave behind, I would like to resurrect a term that passed out of vogue some time ago, multimedia, which emphasizes existing cultural models of the various channels through which we encounter information.

[T]he tendency to associate or differentiate one medium from another is never unmotivated.

Creative Works referenced
Lexia to Perplexia
Critical Writing referenced
Cybertext Theory: What an English Professor Should Know Before Trying
Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature
Avatars of Story
The Language of New Media