Saturday, March 20, 2010

Are You a Metademiurge?

I'm trying to figure out what a metademiurge is.

Here are some hints.

Transmedia links:

http://farisyakob.typepad.com/blog/2006/10/transmedia_plan.html

http://www.henryjenkins.org/2006/12/how_transmedia_storytelling_be.html


A book on convergence culture:

http://www.amazon.com/Convergence-Culture-Henry-Jenkins/dp/0814742815

Jean Pique Hansen seems to be collecting links too:

http://www.squidoo.com/transmediaplanning

Being a metademiurge is not in itself transmedia, cross-marketing or The New (insert catchword here). If it were that easy, I'd have figured it out already.



Things that have given me hints on the concept I'm after:

The game Spore:
http://www.spore.com/ftl

All the viral marketing hoopla. Here's something I identified as having a component of this:

Rocketboom.com explains the Yo Dawg meme:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1wZbIdlSTI

Rocketboom.com gives the history of the All Your Base Are Belong to Us meme:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fV_KxVwZjU

Actually, I'm learning a lot from the Rocketboom people:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYzv-AVi78E

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