![]() ![]() The current study addressed this research need by investigating how preservice ELA teachers perceived, read, and created transmedia stories and how they saw implementing these texts in an ELA classroom. Research is needed on how preservice ELA teachers engage with transmedia stories and how this relates to their perceptions of teaching this new literacy. ![]() While researchers, scholars, and educators have begun to theorize about how such stories might benefit literacy and ELA education, little empirical research exists as to how these narratives are perceived by teachers and how this new literacy might actually be implemented in a classroom. Theoretical research has suggested that transmedia stories can be used in the ELA classroom to teach both traditional literacies and 21st century literacies. Transmedia stories are an emerging twenty-first century storytelling form where a narrative is told over multiple texts and media platforms and is often extended further by reader contributions. More research is needed, however, on the relationship between literacy experiences and pedagogical thinking for preservice teachers implementing new literacies such as transmedia stories. The personal literacy experiences English Language Arts (ELA) teachers have are an important factor in shaping their pedagogical thinking about literacy. New style of storytelling, which feeds on the codes peculiar to the period and is expressed as transmedia storytelling, enables consumers to shape media content and media as they wish through creating a deep, overreaching, and participative plot language and narration model and in this sense, necessitates a detailed analysis. Social media platforms, which are actively used by these consumers in their daily lives, play an important role regarding realizing these desires, reaching new contents, and the efforts to re-create and share the new content. These consumers, who are new subjects of the new period, do not do with consumption of the product presented by media as audiences they have desire to participate in the story and to be one of the creators of it. The change of media perception and media consumption habits led the passive and isolated consumers of previous periods to give way to social consumers who are interested in interaction and sharing. The profile of individual -consumer- of the new world is different. ![]() It hints its effects on economic, political, and cultural lives by breaking the taboos considering its nature as a technological concept. In fact, convergence, as a concept, is pushing the limits day by day. ![]() For these reasons, the present age is considered as the age of convergence. They are accepted as an important part of daily routine. These tools, which are mediating the change of culture production mechanisms, increase the parameter of functionality by incorporating into people and tuning to each other. In modern period communication tools that are shaped under the dominance of postmodern images, mean more than being means of communication and play a more effective role compared to the past. The information communication technology developing in today’s world brings about new and different communication opportunities. ![]()
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