{"id":1422,"date":"2007-04-07T19:02:50","date_gmt":"2007-04-07T19:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2007-04-07T19:02:50","modified_gmt":"2007-04-07T19:02:50","slug":"misnomer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1422","title":{"rendered":"Misnomer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m beginning to think that the title of my THESIS, <i>Transmedia Storytelling: Business, Aesthetics and Production at the Jim Henson Company,<\/i> might be something of a misnomer.  True, the entire middle third of the paper is dedicated to <i>Labyrinth<\/i> and <i>The Dark Crystal<\/i> and all their respective transmedia extensions, but the paper&#8217;s index will also include references to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Batman<\/li>\n<li>Superman<\/li>\n<li>Sandman<\/li>\n<li>Hellboy<\/li>\n<li>Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt<\/li>\n<li>Stephen King<\/li>\n<li><i>Final Fantasy VII<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Final Fantasy XIII<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Dr. Who<\/li>\n<li><i>Star Wars<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Star Trek<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Harry Potter<\/li>\n<li><i>The Matrix<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Lord of the Rings<\/i><\/li>\n<li>The Bible<\/li>\n<li><i>Stargate<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Apollo<\/li>\n<li>Humphrey Bogart<\/li>\n<li><i>The Chronicles of Narnia<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>The Wizard of Oz<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Peter Pan<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Alice in Wonderland<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Mobile devices<\/li>\n<li>Joseph Campbell<\/li>\n<li>Manga<\/li>\n<li>Keats<\/li>\n<li>The Grateful Dead<\/li>\n<li>Greek mythology<\/li>\n<li>Web 2.0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In other words, when it&#8217;s finished it&#8217;s going to be a pretty solid map of my head.  Kind of.  Good grief, it&#8217;s going to be a mess&#8230;<br \/>\nCurrent processed word-count: 13,605, and about half of that is brand new stuff, not just spliced-in stuff.  Man, I need a break.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m beginning to think that the title of my THESIS, Transmedia Storytelling: Business, Aesthetics and Production at the Jim Henson Company, might be something of a misnomer. True, the entire middle third of the paper is dedicated to Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal and all their respective transmedia extensions, but the paper&#8217;s index will also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thesis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4e5QR-misnomer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}