Around the globe people now engage with media content across multiple platforms following stories characters worlds brands and other information across a spectrum of media channels. This transmedia phenomenon has led to the burgeoning of transmedia studies in media cultural studies and communication departments across the academy. The Routledge Companion to Transmedia Studies is the definitive volume for scholars and students interested in comprehending all the various aspects of transmediality. This collection which gathers together original articles by a global roster of contributors from a variety of disciplines sets out to contextualize problematize and scrutinize the current status and future directions of transmediality exploring the industries arts practices cultures and methodologies of studying convergent media across multiple platforms. . Language: English