I announced just recently that I work in SL as a journalist and that the magazine, SLATENight, is now online. Well now you can download a pdf of the magazine. I was also interviewed for ABC’s Radio National programme: Background Briefing a couple of weeks ago. The segment is about virtual money etc and is … Read moreSecond Life Update: me on radio & a pdf
The paper I wrote for the upcoming Association of Internet Researchers Conference: Internet Convergences, How the Internet is Holding the Center of Conjured Universes, is now online. The Internet is an indisputably influential force in changes to the way entertainment is conceived, produced, distributed, experienced and critiqued. Little is known, however, about how the Internet is used … Read moreMy paper is now online: the role of the Net in cross-media entertainment
Ian Bogost — respected ludologist, co-founder of Water Cooler Games and author of Unit Operations (his most recent book) — has reviewed Henry Jenkins’ book Convergence Culture. It is a lengthy review in which Bogost queries, of course, Jenkin’s introduction of his own terms and the use of ‘storytelling’ in ‘transmedia storytelling’. Jenkins has responded too, … Read moreExcolunt!: Academic Debate about Convergence Culture
There are academic journals for just about everything and thankfully one on Lost too. Lost Studies will be doing a special issue soon on the Lost ARG. Amy Bauer has encouraged academics to submit essays for the forthcoming issue: I am doing a special issue on the ARG, including work by academics and fans reflecting on all aspects … Read moreLost Academic Journal
I have to confess I’m moonlighting in another world. I’ve started working in the virtual world Second Life as an “embedded journalist”. SLATE Magazine (Second Life Arts & Total Entertainment Magazine) is a new Second Life magazine that covers the arts in SL. There are 14 authors in the collective so far and we’re a … Read moreWriting About Virtual Words (My Second [Life] Job)
This is a reminder that the Perth DAC (7th International Digital Arts and Culture Conference) abstracts are due 28th August (I thought they were originally earlier?): Papers are sought for PerthDAC 2007 that will illuminate both the near and long term Future of Digital Media Culture. Papers which present research outcomes, track trends or developments, … Read moreCFP: Perth DAC
Jeremy Douglass, my wonderful co-blogger at WRT, interviewed new media arts legend Nick Montfort for the current issue of the Iowa Review Web. Jane McGonigal, ARG researcher and designer, was also interviewed (by Scott Rettberg — another new media arts legend and guest editor for the issue). Jane claims that players create Gesamtkunstwerk. I have cited Wagner’s … Read moreJane and Jeremy in Iowa Review Web
Thanks Tom for the heads up on this one: Special Issue on ?Convergence Culture? Guest editors: Mark Deuze, Indiana University Henry Jenkins, MIT (author of Convergence Culture) This call invites submissions for a special issue on ?Convergence Culture?: the worldwide emergence of increasingly collaborative practices between media producers and consumers. Examples are television fan sites, game … Read moreCFP: Convergence Culture
Last year I was commissioned by RealTime Magazine to interview New Media postgraduates doing practice-led research in Australia: The Creative Degree as Interface. This year I was commissioned to interview New Media educators who are new media artists teaching new media art. The article The University: New Home for New Media, (which I had as … Read moreNew Media Educators
Jason Mittell, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Film & Media Culture at Middlebury College, is one academic (of some) who is playing and analysing the Lost ARG: The Lost Experience. I’ve covered his work in the upcoming ARG whitepaper, but for now check out his latest offerings online. He has two articles on the … Read moreLost Analysis Update