Transcending Binaries of Course Delivery

A Transmedia Mindset as Resistance to a Single Standard and a Default Normal

Abstract

Jenkins’s (2006) transmedia storytelling is a starting point for re-envisioning the writing course as a transmodal, translingual–and transmedia–ecological system. Blurring course modalities suggest the need to shift to a transmedia mindset for course delivery, regardless of official designation. Transmedia resistance aligns with four forms of translingual and trans-modal resistance described by Horner et al. (2015): the myth of perfect fluency, rejection of technologies, celebration of technologies, and lack of material resources. As transmedia experiences evolve into trans-reality worldbuilding across physical and virtual realities, standardized frameworks should evolve into a network of interactions grounded in pedagogy.