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

[Brooke Thompson]

Yeah, I agree, completely. In fact, that's where I see value in a  
liberal arts education which provides general knowledge on a number of  
fronts instead of the greater detail of a more specialized degree.  
Though your point and example about the technical understanding is  
good (and I am totally stealing it).



On Aug 9, 2010, at 1:18 PM, Evan Jones wrote:


> 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

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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 ;)

>>

>> ----------------------------------

>> Brooke Thompson

>> Transmedia Storytelling

>> http://www.giantmice.com

>>

>>

>>

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