My Exploratory Journey or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love my Ph.D.

Marco Fraga da Silva

I’m developing a practice-based Ph.D. thesis in Media Arts titled “Transmedia Storytelling and Speculative Worldbuilding: Graphic Literature and Cinematographic Strategies in the Construction of a Transmedial Franchise”. The main areas of my thesis are Comics, Speculative Fiction, Transmedia Storytelling, and Worldbuilding.

Episodes

  1. 29/06/2020

    My Exploratory Journey or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love my Ph.D. (part three)

    This is the third travel log entry of my ‘exploratory journey’. I’m developing a practice-based Ph.D. thesis – entitled “Transmedia Storytelling and Speculative Worldbuilding: Graphic Literature and Cinematographic Strategies in the Construction of a Transmedial Franchise” – in Media Arts at the Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies. This log entry will address the artistic input illustrator Matthieu Pereira is developing for the sci-fi graphic novel “Uluru”, part of the hands-on practical component of my thesis.

    11 min

  2. 28/06/2020

    My Exploratory Journey or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love my Ph.D. (part two)

    I’m  developing a practice-based Ph.D. thesis in Media Arts titled  “Transmedia Storytelling and Speculative Worldbuilding: Graphic Literature and Cinematographic Strategies in the Construction of a  Transmedial Franchise”. The main areas of my thesis are Comics,  Speculative Fiction, Transmedia Storytelling, and Worldbuilding.

    8 min

  3. 27/06/2020

    My Exploratory Journey or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love my Ph.D. (part one)

    For the written version visit the following link: https://theportugueseportal.com/2020/01/09/my-exploratory-journey-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-my-ph-d-part-one This article was published at the Portuguese Portal of Fantasy and Science Fiction on January 9 of 2020.

    6 min
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I’m developing a practice-based Ph.D. thesis in Media Arts titled “Transmedia Storytelling and Speculative Worldbuilding: Graphic Literature and Cinematographic Strategies in the Construction of a Transmedial Franchise”. The main areas of my thesis are Comics, Speculative Fiction, Transmedia Storytelling, and Worldbuilding.

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