From Multimedia to Transmedia Experiences in the Interpretation of Heritage: The Mobile Application of Quebec City’s Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage

Summary

The authors of this paper will present the new theoretical, methodological and technological approaches developed by the Canada Research Chair in Cultural Heritage to show how the combination of tangible and intangible cultural heritage interpreted through transmedia storytelling can greatly enhance and go beyond the multimedia experience of cultural heritage. The classical multimedia approach to cultural heritage has had a tendency to favor tangible heritage and to exploit different medias (written texts, 2D photography, panophography, 3D imaging, sound recordings, audio-visual recordings, panovideography) and to use them singularly or to lump them together to tell basically the same story. Inspired by the works of Henry Jenkins, who has experimented transmedia storytelling in the areas of video games, films and comics, the authors present their adaptation of this approach to the field of cultural heritage. Instead of telling the same story, they have developed stories across multiple forms of media. The mobile application of Quebec City will be used to demonstrate the numerous and very innovative potentialities of transmedia in the interpretation of cultural heritage.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• New Ways of Seeing the Past: Using New Technologies in Archaeology   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2014

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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

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PaperId(s): SYM-51,01