TY - GEN
T1 - Left to their own devices
T2 - 30th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication, SIGDOC 2012
AU - Hashimov, Elmar
AU - McNely, Brian
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In this paper, we apply a writing, activity, and genre research (WAGR) framework to explore how research participants designed complex transmedia narratives during a two-semester experiential learning course that was conducted in concert with a major state museum. We focus here on two specific cases from our larger ethnographic study to illustrate participants' self-directed, adaptive development and use of situated genre ecologies to mediate their work. In doing so, we describe how participants navigate among genres and artifacts within a minimum of three overlapping genre assemblages to design transmedia narratives: (1) the course genre assemblage, (2) their discipline-specific assemblage, and (3) their individual genre ecology. We explore individual genre ecologies in detail, describing how participants frequently incorporated ad hoc genres into their workflow as a way of navigating the expectations and genre norms of broader, overlapping assemblages.
AB - In this paper, we apply a writing, activity, and genre research (WAGR) framework to explore how research participants designed complex transmedia narratives during a two-semester experiential learning course that was conducted in concert with a major state museum. We focus here on two specific cases from our larger ethnographic study to illustrate participants' self-directed, adaptive development and use of situated genre ecologies to mediate their work. In doing so, we describe how participants navigate among genres and artifacts within a minimum of three overlapping genre assemblages to design transmedia narratives: (1) the course genre assemblage, (2) their discipline-specific assemblage, and (3) their individual genre ecology. We explore individual genre ecologies in detail, describing how participants frequently incorporated ad hoc genres into their workflow as a way of navigating the expectations and genre norms of broader, overlapping assemblages.
KW - Activity theory
KW - Genre
KW - Mediation
KW - Transmedia
KW - WAGR
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U2 - 10.1145/2379057.2379105
DO - 10.1145/2379057.2379105
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84869073620
SN - 9781450314978
T3 - SIGDOC'12 - Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
SP - 251
EP - 259
BT - SIGDOC'12 - Proceedings of the 30th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
Y2 - 3 October 2012 through 5 October 2012
ER -