Max Giovagnoli — a long-time cyberspace and cross-media colleague and Head of Cross-Media.it, Link Campus, University of Malta Rome — is running the Cross-Media event in Italy. This is Max’s second cross-media event. It will be held in rome on the 24th of March and it looks like he has flown another colleague, Drew Davidson of … Read moreCross-Media Event in Italy #2
De Montfort University have launched another initiative (they have so many!): Transliteracy is the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms and tools from orality through print, TV, radio and film, to networked digital media. The PART (Production and Research in Transliteracy) Group is led by Professor Sue Thomas at De … Read moreTransliteracies blog launched: PART
I’m on the Conference Management Committee of this wonderful event. I hope to see alot of you there… The Fourth Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, 2007 3-5 December 2007 Storey Hall, RMIT University Melbourne, Australia http://www.ie.rmit.edu.au/ SUBMISSION DEADLINES: *Proposals for panels and abstract for individual papers: 30th May 2007 Full Papers (max 8 pages): 15th … Read moreCFP: Interactive Entertainment 2007
Recently I gave a talk for the Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University, Leicester. It is “designed for writers interested in experimenting with new formats and exploring the potential of new technologies in their writing” and run by “Professor Sue Thomas, writer and former Artistic Director of the trAce Online Writing Centre, … Read moreMy Talk at De Montfort University
Dean Keep, a Masters student at RMIT University, has started a research blog on “micro-narratives”. That term, btw Dean, is not new. 😉 I personally like nano-narratives too, for the alliteration and how it makes me smile when I say it. But seriously, the study of micro-narratives, and micro-narratives created for the small screen (or for small and others … Read more"Poetics of Mobile Media"
INTERNATIONAL DIGITAL EARTH 3D VISUALIZATION GRAND CHALLENGE How can we better experience this world of ours at the cross roads of human impacts and climate change? How can we best communicate these experiences, particularly in light of the major changes Earth now faces, as one world? How can we most compellingly understand and communicate those … Read moreInternational 3D Earth Challenge
I recently attended and presented at the First Joint International Conference on CyberGames. I was asked to write an article on the conference for RealTime. Please note that the last paragraph has been incorrectly edited. The conference was not enjoyable in spite of Scot & my workshops! Read “Playing with Reality in Virtual Worlds“. Also, RealTime … Read moreArticle on CyberGames 06
If you haven’t already seen this, check out Assistant Professor Michael Wesch’s video on how digital text has changed everything…Web 2.0: The Machine is Us/ing Us
_Leonardo Electronic Almanac Discussion (LEAD): Vol 14 No 8_ Wild Nature and the Digital Life Special Issue, guest edited by Dene Grigar and Sue Thomas :: Live chat with artist/writer Jeremy Hight and architect/theorist Peter Hasdell :: Chat date: Thursday, February 1. :: 2 pm West Coast US / 5 pm East Coast USA / … Read moreOnline chat with Jeremy Hight
Joseph Jaffe, a new marketing evangelist that I’ve referred to a few times on this blog is in the process of writing his second book. His first, Life After the 30-Second Spot is about the shift from marketers being able to reach massive consumers through the television, indeed, the 30sec TVC. I’ve got it, it … Read moreBook Writing and Marketing 01