In the dispositif / out of CTRL : netwars ou le hacking transmédia

Abstract

The netwars project, dedicated to the world of cyber crime, is composed of five medias: a TV documentary, a web documentary, an interactive story app (Graphic Novel) and a series of novels (audio, paper and ebook). The netwars project is a transmedia universe as defined by Henry Jenkins (2006): it is spread over multiple media and each makes a significant contribution to the whole. netwars forms a blurred universe between reality and fiction in which the viewer builds his own story and experience navigating from one medium to another. This ambiguity, which, as we shall see, is generating paranoia, is aestheticized and structurally created by the transmedia quality of netwars. In this project, paranoia stands not so much in the subject itself than in the fictional device that mixes facts and non-referential elements, as well as in the transmedia structure in its immersive and totalizing dimension. With netwars everything is about hacking: fiction hacks the documentary just like the transmedia hacks the viewer.

Keywords

• transmedia
• dispositif
• silo
• paranoia
• hack
• book