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Transmedia Storytelling in East Asia: The Age of Digital Media

Transmedia Storytelling in East Asia: The Age of Digital Media

Paperback

Series: Routledge Research in Digital Media and Culture in Asia

General Sociology

ISBN10: 1032400226
ISBN13: 9781032400228
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 29 2022
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

This book offers a thorough investigation of the recent surge of webtoons and manga/animation as the sources of transmedia storytelling for popular culture, not only in East Asia but in the wider global context.

An international team of experts employ a unique theoretical framework of media convergence supported by transmedia storytelling, alongside historical and textual analyses, to examine the ways in which webtoons and anime become some of the major sources for transmedia storytelling. The book historicizes the evolution of regional popular culture according to the surrounding digital media ecology, driving the change and continuity of the manhwa industry over the past 15 years, and discusses whether cultural products utilizing transmedia storytelling take a major role as the primary local cultural product in the cultural market.

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