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Designing in Emerging Media through Linguistic Forms

Welch, Jonathan D

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2017, Master of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Design.
As technology evolves, media changes, and the existing paradigms fail to describe the emerging platforms. When a new form emerges, it can be seen as a blend of the existing narrative philosophies. Today emerging narrative platforms, like VR and portable media apps, have qualities of interactive media (games), literature, and video, but lack a coherent overarching structure. Through an abstraction of J. L. Austin's performative formula from “Speech Act Theory”, the designer’s intended psychological effect of narrative devices become more clearly understood, judged, applied, and translated across different platforms. This paper documents an applied project, Tuba-Goose, that engages linguistic structures defined by Austin with visual design choices to create a digital storybook using animation, interaction, and text.
Maria Palazzi (Committee Chair)
Peter Chan (Advisor)
Jeffrey Haase (Advisor)
58 p.

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  • Welch, J. D. (2017). Designing in Emerging Media through Linguistic Forms [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1503162627442894

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Welch, Jonathan. Designing in Emerging Media through Linguistic Forms. 2017. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1503162627442894.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Welch, Jonathan. "Designing in Emerging Media through Linguistic Forms." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1503162627442894

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)