DCRC - Digital Cultures Research Centre

Among recent examples of long-form sf drama, there can be observed an increasing tendency to extend the broadcast story across multiple narrative platforms. The web, mobile telephony and print media are recombined with established broadcast platforms to produce a form of storytelling interleaving online and offline experiences. While this participatory creation of story, apparently ideally suited to the 21st Century, suits a technologically savvy contemporary audience, why has multimedia storytelling consistently sought to explore sf themes?