Anna Nacher

Anna Nacher obtained her Ph.D. in cultural studies in 2006 and has since worked at the Institute for Audiovisual Arts of the Jagiellonian University, in Krakow, Poland. Her current interests include transmedia storytelling, geomedia, sound studies and media archaeology. She has written two books in Polish, one on gender in television in the age of globalization and the other on contemporary countercultural movements, as well as a number of articles in Polish peer-reviewed academic journals and in edited books. She recently contributed a chapter on interactive fiction (“We Tell Stories – Storytelling in the Age of Media Convergence”) to a book on media convergence. Her article, “A Humument App by Tom Phillips as a work of liberature: between text and embodiment,” is available in the ELMCIP Knowledge Base Anthology (http://elmcip.net/critical-writing/humument-app-tom-phillips-work-liberature-between-text-and-embodiment). She also creates her own projects in sound art and improvised music.

Publications

Mashup as Paratextual Practice: Beyond Digital Objects (in the Age of Networked Media)
Mashup as Paratextual Practice: Beyond Digital Objects (in the Age of Networked Media)
Anna Nacher. © 2014. 20 pages.
The main objective of this chapter is to contribute to a more dynamic understanding of the notion of paratext (Genette, 1997a). The author argues that in order to fully grasp the...