Transmedia for Audience Engagement - American University May 2013. Ever feel like online engagement is a multi-headed Hydra that, after you've conquered one social platform, another pops up to rear an uglier and more complex visage? Using tenants of transmedia storytelling, experience designer James Carter offers ways of wrangling this beast for your organization or project. Carter will share his own creative work and offer successful case studies of transmedia storytelling to engage audiences. By focusing your story and framing the pieces as chapters that unfold over several platforms with unique voices, the job of managing engagement won't seem so Herculean.