Critique of convergence: theories and challenges of transmedia for sports sciences

This article highlights the need for a holistic and interdisciplinary approach between the media and the new contexts and issues. Through a critique of the state of knowledge about Jenkins' theories, the study focuses on transmedia. Highlighting a controversial scientific reception of the concept, it suggests a new historical and methodological conceptualization of this concept in order to better understand its rhetorical potentialities. It also clears the way for a reflexive and practical extension of the concept of transmedia. Established in many areas of daily life, the concept of transmedia is not mobilized in some areas of research. In fact this work introduces an analytical context of transmedia in the field of sport and makes a link in the conclusion between this approach and the actual scientific issues in sport. Thus, this study shows the need to develop an empirical enrichment of this concept especially in the field of sport.