Transmedia Storytelling

Transmedia Storytelling examines how successful stories move between platforms – from traditional media to digital formats – and diagnoses how platform capitalism has transformed transmedia storytelling from a democratic expansion of story worlds into a machinery of extraction.

Jean Pierre Magro is a screenwriter, producer, and lecturer whose work investigates how stories survive their passage through industrial systems. He writes and produces feature film and serial television, and has co-developed comics for IO Interactive's Hitman franchise. His writing credits include Blood on the Crown (with Harvey Keitel and Malcolm McDowell), Bulgarian Rhapsody (Bulgaria’s official entry, 87th Academy Awards®), Hounds of War (starring Frank Grillo and Robert Patrick). As producer, his credits include Not Without Hope (starring Zachary Levi, directed by Joe Carnahan). He began his career producing long-form history documentaries for European and American broadcasters including RAI, the History Channel, ARTE, and ZDF. He holds a PhD from the University of Exeter and lectures on screenwriting, comics, and games at universities across Europe.