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Networked Reenactments: Stories Transdisciplinary Knowledges Tell

Katie King

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Since the 1990s, the knowledge, culture, and entertainment industries have found themselves experimenting, not altogether voluntarily, with communicating complex information across multiple media platforms. Against a backdrop of competing national priorities, changing technologies, globalization, and academic capitalism, these industries have sought to reach increasingly differentiated local audiences, even as distributed production practices have made the lack of authorial control increasingly obvious. As Katie King describes in Networked Reenactments , science-styled television—such as the Secrets of Lost Empires series shown on the PBS program Nova —demonstrates how new technical and collaborative skills are honed by television producers, curators, hobbyists, fans, and even scholars. Examining how transmedia storytelling is produced across platforms such as television and the web, she analyzes what this all means for the humanities. What sort of knowledge projects take up these skills, attending to grain of detail, evoking affective intensities, and zooming in and out, representing multiple scales, as well as many different perspectives? And what might this mean for feminist transdisciplinary work, or something sometimes called the posthumanities?

GenresAcademic

392 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Katie King

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I am an Army brat, used to moving around, being in unfamiliar settings and situations and always psyching them out. Probably that’s why I went into Women’s Studies as a field: always finding myself thinking sideways instead of straight-on! -- Yes, Queer Theory is another field and interest. -- My first memories are of Japan just at the end of the US occupation. And being a kid in Ankara, Turkey when the Berlin Wall went up, and Friendship 7 orbited the planet, shaped my imagination, politics, and sensitivities. Until I went to college in Santa Cruz, California, I had never been in one place longer than 2 years. Then I stayed or returned to Santa Cruz for the next sixteen years. There I got involved in the Women’s Liberation Movement and the Gay Liberation Movement, and all that contributed to my turning into a professor of Women’s Studies. I’ve been wondering about how we make, share, demonstrate, and use knowledges ever since I first discovered science fiction as a kid. I teach SF Feminisms as well as thinking about old and new media, and these are all part of my new book, Networked Reenactments: Stories Transdisciplinary Knowledges Tell .

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