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WHEN A STORY CALLS:
THE NARRATIVE POTENTIAL OF MOBILE MEDIA
by
Scott W. Ruston
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(CRITICAL STUDIES)
August 2008
Copyright 2008 Scott W. Ruston
Object Description
| Title | When a story calls: the narrative potential of mobile media |
| Author | Ruston, Scott W. |
| Author email | sruston@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Cinema-Television (Critical Studies) |
| School | School of Cinema-Television |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-06-04 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Kinder, Marsha |
| Advisor (committee member) |
McPherson, Tara Fisher, Scott |
| Abstract | Recognizing the transmedia migration of narrative, this project argues that the mobile phone is particularly well suited as a platform for immersive and interactive narrative entertainment. The analysis incorporates three mutually informing vectors: an historical look at the narrative role of the telephone in film; a critical and theoretical analysis of the "mobisode" as an example of the convergence of television and the mobile phone; and an experiment creating an immersive and interactive narrative project using mobile media. The telephone has functioned in a prominent role as a narrative device in cinematic storytelling, while the mobisode represents televisual narrative on the mobile phone. I contend that the mobisode combines with the cinematic legacy of the telephone to lead toward mobile narrative entertainment forms that exist at the intersection of storytelling, game culture and mobile media technologies. The narrative potential of mobile media lies in capitalizing on the interactive qualities and history of telephony, the networked architecture of mobile communications, and the ubiquity of the mobile device tocreate a narrative experience that bridges the real and the imaginative, the physical and the virtual. |
| Keyword | mobile phone; mobisode; narrative; entertainment; telephones in film |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1305 |
| Rights | Ruston, Scott W. |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Ruston-20080604 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume26/etd-Ruston-20080604.pdf |
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| Full text | WHEN A STORY CALLS: THE NARRATIVE POTENTIAL OF MOBILE MEDIA by Scott W. Ruston A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (CRITICAL STUDIES) August 2008 Copyright 2008 Scott W. Ruston |
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