| This project sought to produce a unique body of knowledge about new media storytelling, exploring the potential for narrative arts to influence broader publics, shape policies, and improve health. |
The Transmedia Story Lab project brought together a research team from the Biological Sciences Division, Humanities Division, and School of Social Service Administration to explore ways that narrative arts — especially emergent digital media and transmedia storytelling forms — can influence broader publics, impact policies, and improve health. The Lab, an initiative of the Center for Interdisciplinary Inquiry and Innovation in Sexual and Reproductive Health (Ci3), sought to produce a unique body of knowledge about new media storytelling that explores intersections between the arts and sciences, as well as critical making and practice-based research in the humanities. The project also explored transmedia storytelling itself as a qualitative research method that could further the field of public health. Through providing infrastructural support for establishing the Lab, the Neubauer Collegium facilitated the development of new analytic, qualitative, and quantitative research methods for studying the impact of narrative in public health, and enable scholarship that exists at the intersection between the digital humanities and public policy.
Associate Professor in the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration
University of Chicago
Alida Bouris's research is broadly focused on the relationship between social context and health, with a particular emphasis on understanding how social inequality, social networks, and social support shape the health and well-being of historically excluded and marginalized youth and adult...
Executive Vice President and Provost
The Ohio State University
Melissa L. Gilliam is the chief academic officer of The Ohio State University. Previously she served as vice provost, the Ellen H. Block Distinguished Service Professor of Health Justice, and professor of obstetrics and gynecology and pediatrics at the University of Chicago. At the University of...
Professor of English and Cinema and Media Studies; Co-founder, Game Changer Chicago Design Lab and Transmedia Story Lab; Faculty Director, Weston Game Lab
University of Chicago
Patrick Jagoda specializes in media theory, game studies and design, science studies, and twentieth and twenty-first century American literature and culture. He is the co-founder of the Game Changer Chicago Design Lab and the Transmedia Story Lab, faculty director of the Weston Game Lab and the...
