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A Transmedia Topology of Making a Murderer

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dc.creatorHook, Alan
dc.creatorBarrios-O'Neill, Danielle
dc.creatorMairs Dyer, Jolene
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-24T13:26:16Z
dc.date.available2020-08-24T13:26:16Z
dc.date.issued2016-12-31
dc.description.abstractThis article constructs a transmedia topology of the Making a Murderer text, mapping the ecologies of interaction, participation and creation with and of the text by the audience. Firstly we explore the mixed textualities of the series delivered through the streaming service Netflix. We then expand the analysis to consider the wider transmedial textualities and trace the thresholds of the transmedial text to investigate new approaches to analysing transmedial work in the context of non-fiction media forms. We explore the relationships between the core series and the participatory engagement in the production of the text as a whole which includes online engagement, active investigations, and the production of a wide range of new material in response to the core series. Here we define transmedia topology as a tracing of what we could call the geography of the text, as defined by its features and boundaries (or lack thereof).We situate the series as a piece of Complex TV, but explore how the series invites active participation from the audience; through its structure, complexity and form. The article maps the series textual connections with more traditional documentary form, and more experimental transmedial approaches, relating it to Alternate Reality Games. We consider (at the time of writing and publication) the tangible, real world outcomes of the text and the audiences participation in the production of the text. This mapping situates the text within a number of media discourses to understand its media geneology and explore its textual trajectories.This mapping explores both the 10-part series, and the wealth of paratextual material as a text together, mapping the connections between the documentary series and the emergence of a transmedial textuality that is owed largely to audiences and the textual terrain.en
dc.identifier.doi10.18146/2213-0969.2016.jethc117
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14723
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/15698
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNetherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
dc.publisher.placeHilversum
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0969
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectFernsehende
dc.subjectparatextual analysisen
dc.subjectcomplex TVen
dc.subjecttransmediaen
dc.subjecttextual analysisen
dc.subjectMaking a Murdereren
dc.subject.ddcddc:070
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.subject.workMAKING A MURDERER
dc.titleA Transmedia Topology of Making a Murdereren
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2021-05-29T06:10:00
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2016.jethc117
local.source.epage139
local.source.issue10
local.source.spage124
local.source.volume5
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21784198

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