Transmedia and new narratives in humanities training

Abstract

In the current cultural and technological context, disciplines and academic education facenew challenges related to teaching and learning practices, due to the fact that technologicalmediations, advanced supports and archives have transformed these processes. In thispaper we explore the alternatives that transmedia narratives offer for the Humanities, inparticular, for Literature and Philosophy. We emphasize the need to incorporate other supports and other narratives in the work of these areas, including and taking advantage oftechnological mediations. Therefore, instead of having gaps between education and technology, weidentify the challenges caused by the transformation of actors, roles and training processes, as well asthe emergence of “informal” methodologies and platforms. To this end, we begin with the conceptualcharacterization of the technologically mediated environment that university education is increasinglyfacing. Secondly, we identified some contemporary literary practices and we make a historical accountof some Latin American works that can be analyzed from the category of Transmedia Literature.Finally, will be problematized the written and visual registers that are transformed and conditioned byinformation flows on the Internet, television and other screens in electrically supported circuits. Thediscussion on technological mediations puts us in a problematizing context of the places and habitualuses of literary, philosophical and educational discourse.