[arg_discuss] What skills do you need for working in ARGs & transmedia

[Evan Jones]

For me Brooke - the most important reason to have technical knowledge in
transmedia is to attain what Cory Doctorow called 'The Plausible Premise'

http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2009/07/cory-doctorow-cheap-facts-and-plausible.html

<http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2009/07/cory-doctorow-cheap-facts-and-plausible.html>Essentially
- all you have to know is that something's possible and SNAP - Google will
show you how (perhaps after many hours) or put you in touch with someone who
can do it today.  An example is with a recent project with Facebook
OpenGraph API - I don't need to know how to program it directly, but I do
need to know the capabilities of the system to understand how it works for
my transmedia project.  And that requires some technical
tinkering/education.

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Evan Jones
Stitch Media

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On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Brooke Thompson <brooke at giantmice.com>wrote:


> Tomorrow, I am meeting with various people from the State of Georgia to

> talk about transmedia and the skills and education required for it. It's

> part of some education grant program that helps to make sure that GA has a

> competitive work force.

>

> I am at a loss. Transmedia skills tend to be more "liberal arts" than

> technical - or, rather, we contract out what we need when we need it which

> changes frequently. Or is that just how I see it from where I'm standing -

> do you producer types see it similarly? If you could say that you'd like to

> see more people better educated in something, what would that something be?

> Or, is there some knowledge or skill you have that you feel has been

> instrumental or something you wish you had, what is it?

>

> Help me not sound like an idiot or at less like less of one ;)

>

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> Brooke Thompson

> Transmedia Storytelling

> http://www.giantmice.com

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