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The Extratextuals: the Mediation of Media

Posted in Digital Media Researchers, Media and Popular Culture, New Media Literacies, cyberculture, digital fiction, tagged , , , , , , on October 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Fascinating new blog find (via Christy) – the Extratextuals, a group blog defined as the following: This is a blog about the media. However, with other blogs on television, film, and the media in general, we wanted to carve out a specific niche. So our blog will focus primarily on the extratextuals that surround the [...]

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My Digital Fiction Presentation for Futures in Literacy Conference

Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, digital fiction, personal, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 4, 2007 | 4 Comments »

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My NMC Symposium on “Creativity in Second Life” Presentations Next Week

Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, digital fiction, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 9, 2007 | 4 Comments »

Next week the NMC is running an entire weeks symposium on “Creativity in Second Life” There are a number of strands: Machinima, Fashion, Sculpture and Modeling, Virtual Photography, and Teaching Environments, social / arts events, and lots of practical and interactive sessions. I am involved in three sessions, all at (sort of) Australian friendly times. [...]

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ARG Style marketing for “The Dark Knight”

Posted in cyberculture, digital fiction, tagged , , , , , on July 29, 2007 | 5 Comments »

I thought the new Simpsons movie had done some great pre-release marketing but The Dark Knight (thanks Andy for the correct title!) tops all, complete with all sorts of teasers and even an ARG style game that occurred via whysoserious.com.

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Proposed Video-Game School Gets $1.1 Million Boost

Posted in cyberculture, tagged , , , , , on June 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I just came across this press release … All Things Considered, June 21, 2007 · The MacArthur Foundation board announced Thursday it will fund a $1.1 million grant for a brand new middle- and high school in New York. The curriculum revolves around teaching kids to make video games. The MacArthur Foundation says video games [...]

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Pleasure, Play, Participation and Promise: the audio to my conference talk

Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, digital fiction, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 9, 2007 | 5 Comments »

Thanks to the wonderful Alan Levine, I now have the audio recording to go with my NMC talk, here: Alan’s write-up of my talk is on the NMC blog here – thanks so much!

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I’m Heading Off for June to Speak, Research, Speak, Plan more Research etc etc…

Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, digital fiction, personal, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »

The major speaking event I have is the featured session at the NMC Summer Conference. I was specifically invited to speak about a “bit of everything” related to my research, so here’s the slides that accompany the talk. I hope I can arrange an audio stream to support the slides for the near future. And [...]

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Youth Online – almost there!

Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, digital fiction, personal, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »

Yay! Here is my final book cover!!! And here is one of the endorsements: How lovely of Len Unsworth to write such kind words.

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Christy Dena on Multi-Platform Art versus Commodity Intertexts

Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, digital fiction, tagged , , , , on May 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I was fortunate enough to listen to Christy Dena today presenting a truly stimulating lecture on Multi-Platform Art versus Commodity Intertexts.  Her point of departure was a quote from Henry Jenkins about transmedia storytelling, which she interrogated by tracing the history of cross-media art forms, from pre-internet media such as Twin Peaks to new forms [...]

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Proposed Book Cover Design

Posted in Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, digital fiction, personal, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 17, 2007 | 6 Comments »

This is the proposed book cover design for my book!!!  Yay!!!  Finally its *almost* here.  I am very excited now to be this close

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Sony Playstation 3: Home = a New Form of SL?

Posted in Virtual Worlds, tagged , on March 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s a look at the new Home from Sony PS3. Already the blogosphere is rumbling with a mix of excitement about its widespread accessibility and moral panic about issues of control, parental supervision, surveillance, commercialism etc.  What do you think – will it become the hot new teen hangout?

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