Month: January 2005

Saw this Error Message Generator on Drew’s blog and couldn’t help but create some popups that a user/interactor/operator/reader/vuser/viuser/wreader/player etc may come across: Let me know if you come up with any too!

Lisbeth Klastrup completed her PhD in 2003 but has put it online for 1 month. ‘Towards a Poetics of Virtual Worlds: Multi-User Textuality and the Emergence of Story’ was completed at the Department for Digital Aesthetics and Communication (DIAC), IT University of Copenhagen. Klastrup began looking at, playing, immersing herself in ‘interactive narratives’ in 1996 … Read morePerspectives Abound: from 'distributed narrative' to 'transmedial worlds'

Following the previous post on Tom Apperley is the inclusion of another cross-media researcher, focusing on games: Drew Davidson. Drew contacted myself, and Monique, excited about finding other researchers in this area. Whereas Monique and myself were beginning our research at the beginning of the millenium, Davidson had just completed a dissertation. Davidson completed his … Read moreCrossmedia and Games researcher 2

Tom Apperley, fellow cross-media researcher at the University of Melbourne (different department though), is publishing his thesis-in-progress online. Appereley is focusing on the game, specifically console, dimension of cross-media (where games are an ‘intertextual commodity’), and on ‘interactivity’. He is also doing a valuable ethnographic comparison of Venezuelan and Australian gamers. His posts include: Preliminary … Read moreTom Apperley's research is now online

The 5th Symposium on Art and Multimedia Metanarrative is being held on the 28th and 29th of Jan (did anyone else know about this?!) and seems to be an interesting theme: Fruit of having entered into complex formal systems, one could speak of the formulations made following the narrative/non-narrative duality of the meatnarrative (applying the … Read moreNon-Narrative Narratology?

I have just discovered that I have been deleting emails that are inquiries re this site and not spam. If you’ve sent me an email and I haven’t responded — try again, all should be good now. How can you tell if someone is ignoring you if you’ve never met them? And how can I … Read moreIf I ignored you…

It is here: Monique’s paper from her session at the European Information Society Event that I contributed to is online as a pdf: Crossmedia communication in the dynamic knowledge society Paper offered to the European CommissionDG Information SocietyReport of the IST Networking session N2815 November 2004 The Hague The paper is well skewed for policy … Read moreEuropean Commission receives good news

As some of you may have seen in the terms, works and other resources links, there is another researcher looking at the phenomenon of cross-media storytelling. The latest researcher (that I?ve found, I?d love to know of more) is Jill Walker. Walker, web-celeb academic, has considered many aspects of storytelling in new media and produces, … Read moreWe Isa Gang Now

Just scanning over audio interviews over at IT Conversations and I came across an audio recording of a chapter from Lawrence Lessig‘s (Professor of Law at Stanford Law School) book titled Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity. The ideas discussed in it and the … Read moreParticipatory Design is in the Content