Open AccessStory, History and Intercultural Memory
Author(s) -
Marida Di Crosta,
Anita Léandro
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
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Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2213-0969
DOI - 10.18146/2213-0969.2016.jethc109
Subject(s) - amateur , storytelling , television series , visual arts , media studies , digital storytelling , sociology , multimedia , world wide web , history , computer science , narrative , art , literature , archaeology
How can transmedia storytelling benefit to a documentary production in order to give historical archives a second life? Could it possibly help updating official archives, adding to the them amateur’s contributions? We will try to answer the question by recalling some recent European experiences of Web-documentaries linked to television series. This will allows us to extrapolate a few theoretical fundamentals underlying the design of our transcontinental transmedia collaborative project of archive-based documentary – Histories of Brazil. Our aim is to show how a transmedia approach to archive-based content, intervening in contemporary digital interconnected environments, can work as a dynamic complementary tool for developing and sharing historical knowledge.