I have had the unluckiest thing happen. My www.crossmediastorytelling.com domain expired without me being notified. It was subsequently taken by a company who now want at least $200USD for it. I cannot believe this has happened, especially with Max’s book just out and my domain name for CMS all through it! I only just changed … Read moreURL being held ransom
The Australian academic journal fibreculture has announced a CFP (call for papers) for their general issue next year. Tom and I were too late in getting a paper together for the New Media and New Pedagogy issue, and for some reason I never heard back from fibreculture regarding my submission for the upcoming Distributed Aesthetics … Read moreCFP: Fibreculture
I believe that one of the characteristics of contemporary entertainment is the blurring of the productions stages, in particular, how production blurs into publication/broadcast. I have previously called this the ‘caught-with-hair-in-the-curlers-aesthetic’ regarding the Girl Friday blog and even mentioned recently at LAMP the impact of the Blair Witch website on the reception of the film … Read moreTake a Peek at Blue Tights
Max Giovagnoli’s book is out, and I just received my copy in the mail. I wish I could read Italian! I can see that Max has utilised alot of what I’ve written on this blog over the last year or so, but he has cited me, which is good. He has also referred to researchers … Read moreFare Cross-Media out
Our first joint paper — that is between Jeremy Douglass, Mark Marino and I (of Writer Response Theory)– was presented by Jeremy at DAC in Denmark last week. The feedback is good. In particular, Jeremy has been getting a few queries from people following up from my sections on cross-media and adaptations. I’ll be posting … Read moreOur paper went well!
New media artist Mark Amerika is giving a talk on convergence. Mark Amerika is among other achievements, the creator of an early interactive narrative work on the web: Grammatron. His bio reads: Mark Amerika is Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the founder and Publisher of … Read moreConvergence in New Media Academia
I haven’t been posting much because I’ve been preparing for a week-long residential in which I’m a CME mentor! I’m off doing that this week for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation so may not be posting next week either. However, know this: that soon I’ll be letting you know about some more cross-media researchers and launching … Read moreBe Back Soon