Narrativa Extendida Transmedia (N.E.T.)
Theoretical–Methodological Framework
This page presents the academic formalization of the Narrativa Extendida Transmedia (N.E.T.), developed by G. R. Meneghetti and published as an open-access scientific article.
Abstract - Texto original del artículo académico publicado en Zenodo (DOI).
Context: Contemporary transmedia storytelling frequently suffers from semantic fragmentation and affective dilution caused by uncontrolled expansion across media and time. These limitations become particularly critical in long-form transmedia narratives that seek sustained ontological coherence and symbolic density. The N.E.T. System (Extended Transmedia Narrative) v3.2 was formalized from sustained narrative practice as a stewarded, automatically verifiable methodology with supervised community participation.
Objective: To formalize a narrative methodology capable of preserving ontological coherence, symbolic density, and authorial sustainability across long-term transmedia expansion.
Methodology: This study adopts a practice-based research approach derived from the transmedia literary project El Último Redentor. The framework integrates narratology, narrative semiotics, and complex systems theory with hybrid validation protocols combining automated metrics and structured human review.
Results: Application of the N.E.T. System yielded 96.7% inter-level thematic consistency, an average Semiotic Resonance Index (SRI) of 0.71 (≥0.65 considered resonant), and 82% audience retention after twelve months of expansion. A paradigmatic revision (v2.0→v2.1) was validated by three independent auditors with no measurable loss of resonance between legacy and newly generated narrative assets.
Conclusions: N.E.T. v3.2 addresses key limitations of prior transmedia methodologies through formal governance, semantic versioning, automated coherence validation, and an anti-burnout protocol for independent creators. Emerging ex post facto from sustained narrative practice rather than a priori theoretical design, the system offers both a sustainable creative praxis and a transferable analytical methodology for the study and construction of complex narrative universes.
N.E.T. is proposed as a transferable methodology rather than a universalizable theoretical standard.
Explanatory Summary
Extended Transmedia Narrative (N.E.T.) is a methodological system developed by G. R. Meneghetti to expand narrative universes across multiple media without sacrificing coherence, identity, or symbolic depth.
Unlike other transmedia approaches, N.E.T. prioritizes semantic continuity and long-term narrative governance.
The system emerged from the practical experience of the literary project El Último Redentor and was later formalized as a verifiable theoretical–methodological framework. It integrates tools from narratology, semiotics, and complex systems theory, combining automated metrics with structured human review.
N.E.T. is not presented as a closed standard, but as a transferable and adaptable methodology, oriented toward both the creation and critical analysis of complex narrative universes, with a particular focus on creative sustainability and transmedia coherence.
Relationship with El Último Redentor
The Extended Transmedia Narrative (N.E.T.) was not conceived as a pre-existing system applied to a literary work, but rather emerged as a methodological necessity during the development of the narrative project El Último Redentor.
As the universe of the work expanded over time and across multiple layers of content, it became essential to establish a framework capable of preserving coherence, symbolic continuity, and creative sustainability.
Based on this practical experience, the system was progressively structured, tested, and refined within the narrative process itself, until it was ultimately formalized as a methodology. In this sense, El Último Redentor constitutes the environment of origin and validation of the N.E.T. system, from which it emerges as a result rather than as a point of departure.
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Academic Reference and License
This document corresponds to the author’s version of the academic article:
Meneghetti, G. R. (2025). The N.E.T. System™ (Extended Transmedia Narrative): Theoretical–Methodological Framework v3.2
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18143687
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The conceptual document of the Extended Transmedia Narrative (N.E.T.) is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution–No Derivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-ND 4.0).
Scripts, technical tools, and software components associated with the N.E.T. system are distributed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL-3.0), where applicable.
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