Tarik Sabry publishes new book chapter on Transmediality as ‘Doing-Publicness’

Tarik Sabry has published a new chapter on Transmediality as ‘Doing-Publicness’ within the context of Morocco’s Arab Spring Protests. The chapter forms part of a volume on Transmedia Cultures, edited by Simon Bacon. The question posed by Sabry in his chapter is not merely concerned with technology or technicity, but also with the kind of multi-sensorial forms of communication humans derive from transmediality. The work is concerned with trans-mediality as publicness that comes to the fore in its shared-ness and as a totality of involvements. Within the chapter, Sabry alludes to the complex transmedial relations that exist between screen media, non-screen media, (face, voice, talk, muttersprache, affect, experience, structures of feeling, being-with) and the everyday contexts in which these relations come into being as a totality.

The collected volume, Transmedia Cultures demonstrates that transmedia, and indeed transmedia storytelling, are fundamental to the human experience of being in the world and creating the stories of who we are, both as individuals and communities. Transmedia is not just limited to the Star Wars or Harry Potter franchises nor narratives exclusive to new media platforms and devices, though both these areas are discussed. Indeed, transmedia embraces a multiplicity of media platforms (old and new, online and offline), content expansion, and evolving forms of audience engagement.