Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media is allowing free access until Jan 07. Usually you need a university subscription to access journal papers but they’re offering complete access to anyone. These are great papers, by the usual wonderful ludologists and some emerging Ozzie (currently Ozzie) ones too. Go Anders! Here are the papers delivered … Read moreGames and Culture Journal
Just a quick note first, apologies for the continual loss of transmission over these past couple of months. I have a shocking VPS and am in the process of moving all my sites to a new, very fantastic one. But anyway, back to this post. The latest issue of Leonardo Electronic Almanac has a special issue … Read moreLocative Arts papers
Last year I was lucky to be a mentor for the University of Melbourne High Achieving Secondary School Student Mentorship scheme. I was even luckier to be teamed with budding film-maker Ezra Silman. Ezra was working on a film script back then, a script that he has not only filmed, but edited, sound, titles, everything. [I … Read moreEzra's Effort
CFP – REFRACTORY: A JOURNAL OF ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA SPECIAL ISSUE: TRAVERSING NARRATIVE MEDIA The online journal REFRACTORY is seeking contributions regarding narrative in cinema, television and new media. We invite a variety of approaches and topics, but are particularly interested in essays that explore new areas and objects of narrative study, or offer new perspectives … Read moreA Couple of Relevant CFPs
Last night I was playing around with ologies (the study of something) and wondered what would denote research into entertainment that crosses media. I looked up a latin dictionary and found ‘trans’ (as in across, beyond, through etc) and after some looking, ‘modi’ (plural of modes, of mediums). And there it is, our beautiful field … Read moreWe're Transmodiologists!
Andrew McKenzie, a cross-media researcher who is specifically looking at how narrative changes on mobiles (posted about before here), has finally (hehe) changed his site to a blog: Vector TV. Now we call all share in his insights. Yay Andrew! I look forward to reading it.
I just clicked the send button on the email that delivered the ARGs and Academia section I wrote for the IGDA ARG SIG whitepaper. *sigh* and *yay*
Fellow cross-media missionary (Monique’s affectionate term) Professor Drew Davidson has been promoted to ETC Program Director. Very cool. Drew is currently writing a book on cross-media, due out next year. This is wonderful news. I look forward to finally meeting Drew sometime next year maybe, after chatting with him through this blog and emails for … Read moreDrew's now a Director!
The latest batch of reviews from Cyberculture Studies are out: Connected, or What It Means to Live in the Network Society Author: Steven Shaviro Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, 2003 Review 1: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Review 2: Jarice Hanson Review 3: Meredith Tromble Author Response: Steven Shaviro Shaping Things Author: Bruce Sterling Publisher: MIT Press, 2005 … Read moreCyberculture & the essence
Henry Jenkins, the prolific writer (academic behind the MIT Convergence Consortium and Convergence Culture book among a hundred million other things) who has been blogging at Technology Review, Computer Games and recently I’ve seen him at Media Center’s ‘We Imagine’ section of Morph. Well, just this month Henry has started his own blog: Confessons of … Read moreHenry Jenkins has a personal blog!