WDC 624: Transmedia Storytelling

Decorative image of light painting made with long exposure of a fire spinner wielding a staff.

This syllabus was first developed and taught in fall 2018 and then revised in 2019 in preparation for a ten-week compressed summer term. It will be offered next at Agnes Scott in Summer 2020.

Course Description

This course explores transmedia storytelling as a form of communicating ideas across a range of digital delivery platforms. Students learn to produce unique stories that can be expanded to engage diverse audiences for multiple purposes, including entertainment, marketing, and social change. Students identify and analyze the ways in which the stories or narratives acquire a new aesthetic and social significance as they expand to different media.

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Once Upon a Patriarchy podcast critiques Disney’s influences, centers diverse perspectives

Fairy tale podcast Once Upon a Patriarchy logo. Tagline: We have a lot to uncover.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Dr. Shannan Palma,
NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Once Upon a Patriarchy, a new podcast collaboration between award-winning survivor advocate Wanda Swan, director of the Office of Respect at Emory University, and Shannan Palma, PhD, faculty director of the graduate program in writing and digital communication at Agnes Scott College, premieres November 8, 2018 on iTunes and Stitcher.

In each episode, Swan and Palma sit down with a special guest for a creative, laughter-filled conversation that both celebrates and critiques Disney’s influences on generations of Americans.

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Podcast Coming Soon: Once Upon a Patriarchy

How do fairy tales shape us?

Once Upon a Patriarchy, debuting this October, is the first in what we hope will be a series of podcasts produced through the graduate program in Writing and Digital Communication at Agnes Scott College. Podcasts in this series advance our vision of cultivating just and inclusive community and promoting respectful dialogue across difference through digital communication.

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