From crossmedia communication: An excellent site, Games and Storytelling, has uploaded lectures from leading academics on…you guessed it…games and storytelling. The program investigates the two, highly contested areas, inviting top researchers to address: How do game-play and storytelling exactly relate to each other in different game genres and cultures? What are the interactive stances of … Read moreWanna Perve on a Theorist?
The 3rd ceremony (I didn’t know there was 1) for the International iTV Awards is happening in Cannes on April 13, 2005. ‘The Awards competition has grown to incorporate all new formats of global television interactivity, through remote control, fixed and mobile phone.’ I hope they have snippets of the works on the site after … Read moreCan U C iTV, itvt and IPTV?
Yep, that is right, there is actually a newsletter with yummy tidbits of papers, conferences, articles and so on. The newsletter is dedicated to ‘convergence’ — which is known traditionally as an environmental factor affecting cross-media storytelling. However, convergence is described in a manner that is close to our hearts: At its most basic?and most … Read moreA Newsletter for all the cross-media researchers out there!
A half-day executive workshop has my researcher and practitioner mouth dribbling. In Dallas, Texas on March 22 is Media Opportunities and Strategies for the Multiple Media Enterprise: The event, sponsored by the American Press Institute, focuses on how to create and sell innovative content and information services for connected, multiple-media audiences. Among the topics are … Read moreWish I Had a Dream Researcher Budget
Kylie Robertson, the creator behind Jupiter Green, an “interactive drama” that I have posted and written about (refereed paper coming out soon) is in pre-production on a “mobile interactive drama series”: Glued to your mobile phone? SMS crazy? Got no time for TV but love a good drama? Girl Friday (GF) is here and it’s … Read moreThe Caught-with-the-Hair-in-Curlers Aesthetic