Friendship isn’t an emotion fucknuts: Manipulating affective materiality to shape the experience of Homestuck’s story

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dc.citation.issue5-6
dc.citation.volume25
dc.contributor.authorVeale KR
dc.date.available2019-12
dc.date.issued2017-06-20
dc.description.abstractHomestuck is a textual and experiential chameleon that manipulates its own structure to shape the audience’s affective experience of the story by mimicking not just the storytelling techniques of other media forms, but their modes of engagement as well. This article introduces terminology to illustrate how and why the online serial Homestuck qualifies as a distinctive form of storytelling. I introduce the term transmodal engagement to illustrate how Homestuck uses the affective, experiential affordances of different media forms to sculpt and shape the experience of the text in completely different ways to ‘transmedia’ storytelling. The second term this article introduces is metamedia storytelling, which describes how the audience’s familiarity with storytelling across multiple media forms can be used to manipulate their experience of fiction. Homestuck deploys metamedia storytelling to continually destabilise the reader’s understanding of the text and their investments in the storyworld by forcing re-evaluations of not just what is happening, but what kind of mediated relationship the readers have with the content of the story.
dc.description.publication-statusPublished
dc.format.extent1027 - 1043
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dc.identifier.citationCONVERGENCE-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH INTO NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES, 2019, 25 (5-6), pp. 1027 - 1043
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1354856517714954
dc.identifier.eissn1748-7382
dc.identifier.elements-id360264
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn1354-8565
dc.publisherSAGE Publications
dc.relation.isPartOfCONVERGENCE-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH INTO NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES
dc.subjectAffect
dc.subjectmateriality
dc.subjectmedia-specific analysis
dc.subjectmetamedia storytelling
dc.subjectmodes of engagement
dc.subjecttextual structure
dc.subjecttransmedia
dc.subjecttransmodal engagement
dc.subject.anzsrc1505 Marketing
dc.subject.anzsrc1902 Film, Television and Digital Media
dc.subject.anzsrc2001 Communication and Media Studies
dc.subject.anzsrc1903 Journalism and Professional Writing
dc.titleFriendship isn’t an emotion fucknuts: Manipulating affective materiality to shape the experience of Homestuck’s story
dc.typeJournal article
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pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/College of Humanities and Social Sciences/School of Humanities, Media & Creative Communication
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