Terra Nova reports that 15 papers on virtual worlds are online for free and easy consumption. The papers were written by students of the “Games for the Web: Ethnography of Massively Multiplayer On-line Games.” or “Games for the Web” course at Trinity University. There is a great collection of areas of investigation. I’ve had a quick … Read moreBundle o' Joy: 15 Virtual Worlds Papers
I forgot to publish this notice about a talk I’m giving tomorrow (Friday 16th June) at the University of Sydney. It is the School of English, Art History, Film and Media Research Day: ?TECHNOLOGIES AND THE HUMANITIES?. There will be talks delivered by Professors, lecturers and PhD candidates like me. It is a whole day … Read moreMy academic talk
This month on empyre there is a discussion about ‘liquid narrative’. If you can wade through the rhetoric, there is actually some good comments being made. The topic of June at the – empyre – mailing list will be Liquid Narratives. The concept of ‘liquid narrative’ is interesting in that it allows to think about … Read more'Liquid Narrative' discussion
Please distribute the following call to places you think appropriate: ================ Needed: Academics who have investigated Alternate Reality Games I’m writing a section on ARGs and Academia for the upcoming International Game Developers Association Alternate Reality Game Special Interest Group Whitepaper (IGDA ARG SIG). I?m after approaches from all fields using all sorts of methodologies, and by researchers … Read moreCall for ARG Academics
Henry Jenkins, the first theorist to recognise and coin “transmedia storytelling” has a book coming out called Convergence Culture. It won’t be out until August. Here is the blurb form Amazon: Convergence Culture maps a new territory: where old and new media intersect, where grassroots and corporate media collide, where the power of the media … Read more2 Books 2 Hang-out For
For those in Melbourne, I’m giving a talk tomorrow (Tuesday) at the DAG (Digital Art and Games) Seminar series, RMIT Creative Media, Games programs. It is at 12.30- 1.30pm in building 12, level 10, room 02 (lecture theatre). TITLE: Cross-Media Entertainment: How Games can be Designed to Take Over the Universe DESCRIPTION: Christy will provide an … Read moreTalk in Melbourne
I forgot to tell you about a paper I’ll be delivering at the Association of Internet Researchers Conference: Internet Research 7.0: Internet Convergences in Brisbane late September this year. The paper is titled: How the Internet is Holding the Centre of the Narrative Universe, and the abstract is online. The Internet is an undisputedly influential force in … Read moreUpcoming Paper for AOIR
I gave a talk last week on Finding and Attracting Audiences to film & TV producers at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School Centre for Screen Business, Melbourne. I was briefed to give a talk on how producers can make themselves findable, basically, how producers advertise to reach through the noise. I chose to … Read moreA Couple of My Talks, Online
This journal edition came out a while ago (cna you tell I’m going through my long neglected drafts?), but has some interesting papers on mobility. Dong-Hoo Lee documents the experiments with self-image and expression now allowed young Korean women by camera phones. Angel Lin affirms the continuation of older social practices amongst Hong Kong college … Read moreFibreculture Mobility issue
This is an old post, but a goody. John McMurria of DePaul University has a very interesting article, Broadcasting is Dead, Long Live Broadcasting, published at Flow. He analyses four TV and Internet convergences: Case #1. Disney/ABC has teamed with Apple’s iTunes to offer episodes of 6 current television series for playback on a newly released … Read moreMedia Convergence Case Studies