The interdisciplinary Transmedial Narration Workgroup of the Research Unit Media Convergence is concerned with the relation between media convergence and narration, focusing on the effects of convergent developments on narrative media content that is increasingly conceived and presented across media text and media borders:

What is the influence of media convergence on the cultural practice of narration in general and on specific acts of narration in particular?

Is the narrative design of media content in various media and media genres becoming more relevant in times of media convergence?

And what is the relation between the various media texts that form what can alternately be described as ‘transmedia storytelling’ or transmedial narration?

Events

International Conference Storyworlds across Media Mediality – Multimodality – Transmediality June 30th – July 2nd, 2011 at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Workgroup Members

Prof. Dr. Michael Bachmann Department of Film, Theater and Empirical Cultural Studies: Theater Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Areas of Research: Comparative Media Studies; Authenticity Discourses across Media; Theory and History of the Radio Play	Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jens Eder Department of Film, Theater and Empirical Cultural Studies: Film Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Areas of Research: Audiovisual Narration; Characters and Images of Human Nature in Cinema and Television; Media and Emotions
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stephan Füssel Institute of Book Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz	Prof. Dr. Friederike Herrmann Program in Online Journalism University of Applied Science, Darmstadt
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dagmar von Hoff Deputy Spokesperson German Department: Newer History of German Literature, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Areas of Research: Intermediality; Film as Literary Adaptation	Dr. Thomas Klein Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Friedemann Kreuder Department of Film, Theater and Empirical Cultural Studies: Theater Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz	Univ.-Prof. Dr. Matthias Krings Deputy Spokesperson Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz Areas of Research: African Popular Culture; Nigerian Video Film; Oral Cinema Narration in Africa
Dr. Nicole Labitzke Media Center, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Areas of Research: Alternate Reality Games; Structuralist Narratology; Television Studies	Prof. Dr. Thomas Meder Department of Media Design, University of Applied Sciences Mainz Areas of Research: Theory of the Image in Time-based Media; Art History and New Media; Ecological Perception
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Klaus Peter Müller Dep. of Engl., Amer., and Angl. Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Areas of Research: Narration, Cognition and Language; Narration, History, and Popular Media; History of Narratology	Prof. Dr. Sandra Poppe Institute of General and Comparative Literature: Comparative Literature, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Areas of Research: Transmediality; Visuality in Literature and Film; Media Emotions
Dr. Andreas Rauscher Department of Film, Theater and Empirical Cultural Studies: Film Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Areas of Research: Transmedia Storytelling; Ludic and Narrative Structure in Videogames; Narratology of Genre Cinema	Univ.-Prof. Dr. Karl Nikolaus Renner Spokesperson Institute of Media Studies and Communication/School of Journalism, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Areas of Research: Bordercrossing Theory; Storytelling in TV Journalism; Structuralist Narratology
Dr. Uta Reuster-Jahn Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz	Marie-Laure Ryan, PhD GFK-Fellow Research Unit Media Convergence, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Areas of Research: Interactive Narrative; Space and Narrative; Transmedial Narratology
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Simon German Department, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz	Prof. Dr. des. Clemens Spahr Department of English and Linguistics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Areas of Research: Theories of Fictionality; Narration and History
Prof. Anja Stöffler (Dipl.-Des.) Department of Media Design, University of Applied Sciences Mainz Areas of Research: Time-based Media; Information Design and Storytelling; Information Media	Jan-Noël Thon, M.A. Research Unit Media Convergence, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz Areas of Research: Characters across Media; Game Studies; Transmedial Narratology