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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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Where New Media and Old Media Collide

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on September 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Australian YouTube star TheHill88 and Channel 7 television program Today Tonight do something together to do with Australian tourism… not quite sure what – but here is Caitlin’s YouTube version.  Stay tuned for the TV version when hopefully all will be revealed. I like the koala hug!

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Machinima promoted as potential Oscar nominee

Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, tagged , , , , on September 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Back in March I blogged about My Second Life, a documentary-fiction style machinima. Episode 1 was quite interesting – some gorgeous visuals, nice editing, and quite good writing though a little cliched. I only mentioned it in passing at the time – I thought it was fun but … HBO just paid a 6 figure [...]

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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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The Cross-Media Self

Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on August 3, 2007 | 5 Comments »

Yesterday when I added Andy Piper as a friend on Facebook, I flippantly said “now we’re friends everywhere” – since I knew him on Second Life, on Facebook, on twitter, on flickr, on his blog, and through his comments on my blog. He paused for a while, then replied with a wide ASCII grin: “friends [...]

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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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Australian Politicians Catching Up to the YouTube Campaigning Practices of their US Counterparts

Posted in cyberculture, tagged , , , , on July 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »

“John Howard pops up in cyberspace to prove that he has caught up the the 21st century” explains some news reporter on the News today. Malcom Turnbull has a Facebook site and his friends seem to love this photo he posted: Meanwhile Peter Garret from the Labour party argued back against the PM’s climate change [...]

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We Are The Strange

Posted in cyberculture, digital fiction, tagged , , , , on July 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »

We Are The Strange is a new indie movie being featured at the Sundance Film Festival. Described as “Mosters Inc. meets The Nightmare Before Christmas inside of a retro Japanese video game”, the film is sure to be a cult hit because it is truly… strange… from the snippets I have seen and the teasers [...]

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the”Great Firewall”: China and New Media

Posted in cyberculture, tagged , , on June 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »

I first became aware of the “Great Firewall” some time ago, and then more recently when I saw several bloggers doing a comparative study of the results of google image for the search term “Tiananmen Square”. Here’s the image that made the rounds: (image sourced from here) Recently I’ve been working with a PhD student [...]

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Four Eyed Monsters – the full feature film on youtube

Posted in cyberculture, digital fiction, tagged , , , , , , on June 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

In February I blogged about the innovative movie Four Eyed Monsters.  Now the young producers have put the entire feature film on youtube, so here it is: I’m so excited to be able to watch this after missing out on it when it was shown in Second Life.  I love it!

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The Simpsons and my “Today Tonight” Interview

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Hey, I was on Australian television again! Did anybody see me on the current affairs program called Today Tonight? I think the show aired while I was away in the States. This time I was talking about “The Simpsons”, media and pop culture, and fan fiction. Below is a cleaned up version, more or less, [...]

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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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Coca-Cola in Second Life

Posted in Second Life, Virtual Worlds, cyberculture, tagged on May 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Coca-Cola launched in Second Life with a bang – a competition asking for the creation of a “virtual thirst” vending machine, to dispense the essence of Coca-Cola: refreshment, joy, unity, experience.  Nice branding exercise.  Here’s a sample entry: I used to have a dismissive attitude towards big corporations coming in to Second Life – until [...]

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