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
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
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!
Okay, I’m going to try an unusual form of constrained writing. I am only going to blog about MySpace sites & stats etc AT MY MYSPACE blog. And, I’m only going to blog about SecondLife events & things I do in SL AT MY SNAPZILLA. The latter is a bit unusual too as Snapzilla probably wasn’t … Read moreServer-based Constrained Writing
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