Colleagues, I am pleased to announce the launch of the following new book series at Routledge. We have some exciting volumes forthcoming in this series looking at VR storytelling across media platforms, representational strategies in an interconnected media culture, cross-platform research methodologies, transmedia for social change, and beyond. Please see below for a call for proposals. *Routledge Advances in Transmedia Studies* *Series Editor: Matthew Freeman* *Aims and Scope:* This series publishes research monographs and edited collections that sit at the cutting edge of today's interdisciplinary cross-platform media landscape, considering emerging transmedia applications in and across industries, cultures, arts, practices, or research methodologies. The series is especially interested in research exploring the future possibilities of an interconnected media landscape that looks beyond the field of media studies, broadening to include socio-political contexts, education, experience design, mixed-reality, journalism, the proliferation of screens, as well as art- and writing-based dimensions to do with the role of digital platforms. *Matthew Freeman* is Reader in Multiplatform Media and Co-Director of The Centre for Media Research at Bath Spa University. He is the author of *Historicising Transmedia Storytelling* (2016) and *Industrial Approaches to Media* (2016), the co-author of *Transmedia Archaeology* (2014), and the co-editor of *Global Convergence Cultures *(2018) and *The Routledge Companion to Transmedia Studies* (2018). *Call For Proposals:* The series is now accepting proposals for consideration. Topics may consider - but are lot limited to - the following themes: - New approaches to transmedia studies in diverse industrial and disciplinary contexts, e.g. transmedia photography, transmedia documentary, transmedia heritage, transmedia identity, transmedia education; - New approaches to transmedia cultures and non-commercial applications of transmediality around the world, e.g. transmedia for social change; - New approaches to transmedia arts and writing practices beyond the field of media studies; - New approaches to transmedia experiential technologies, e.g. virtual reality, augmented reality, mobile platforms, apps. More specific questions of interest might include the following: - What are the creative or artistic possibilities for transmediality as a concept and practice, particularly in the context of emerging technologies? - How do different industries approach the practice of transmediality, and how do we account for local manifestations of transmediality across sectors? - What are the social consequences and dimensions of transmediality, e.g. how has the normalization of digital and cross-platform circulation and interaction affected social life and power relations in society? - What are the more diverse values of the 'transmedia' term across different disciplines, e.g. what can approaches from participatory theatre or psychology contribute to understandings of transmediality? - What new research methodologies should be adapted to transmedia studies, e.g. how can combined practical and theoretical approaches be applied to particular lines of cross-platform research? Please send initial expressions of interest in proposing a title for this series to *Matthew Freeman* ([log in to unmask]). Following this, authors/editors with proposals meeting the aims and scope for the series will be invited to submit full proposals to Routledge. *Dr Matthew Freeman, FHEA* *Reader in Multiplatform Media* *Unit of Assessment Leader, Communication, Cultural and Media Studies* *Co-Director, The Centre for Media Research* *Film and Media Subject Lead**, SWW AHRC DTP* T: +44 (0)1225 876708 W: www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/matthew-freeman/ The School of Creative Industries Bath Spa University Newton Park, Bath, BA2 9BN Home of The Centre for Media Research <https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/liberal-arts/research/centre-for-media-research/> Partner of South, West and Wales AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership <http://www.sww-ahdtp.ac.uk> Visit www.bathspa.ac.uk Join us on: Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/bath.spa.university> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/#%21/BathSpaUni> | YouTube <http://www.youtube.com/BathSpaUniversity> | LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/company/bath-spa-university> *Think before you print* *Disclaimer*If you have received this message in error, please notify us and remove it from your system. Any views or opinions expressed in personal emails are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Bath Spa University. Neither Bath Spa University nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan this email and any attachments for viruses. ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org