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Update!: PhD submitted & now in the US for MLA and Microsoft SCS

Academia EventPublished December 24, 2009 at 8:29 pm No Comments

Whew!! I did it!!!!! I finally submitted my PhD!!!!!! It has been a crazy few years finishing that thesis writing up and doing all the travel and work stuff at the same time. I’ll share more about the content of my thesis, the research and writing process and lessons learned soon. I’ll also be sharing
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Death of a Blog, Birth of a Podcast

ARG Academia Advertising Audiences Creative Cross-Media Courses Cross-Media Design Culture Digital Cinema Digital Games Event Film Industry Internet Locative Arts Marketing Media Usage Mobile Mobile Content Music Narrative Participatory Design Performance Pervasive Gaming Print Radio Real World Repurposing Research Stage TV Technology UGC Virtual Worlds WritingPublished October 23, 2007 at 9:06 pm 2 Comments

Well, not quite ‘death’ but an indefinite hiatus. I’m powering down this blog for a few reasons, one of which is my desire to finish my PhD. I’ve tried for the last year and a half to do PhD writing and work and this blog, but found the mindsets are somewhat incompatable. I’ve decided therefore
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Trebor Scholz’s History of the Social Web

Academia Audiences Culture Internet Research UGCPublished October 9, 2007 at 5:10 pm 1 Comment

After my post about Danah Boyd’s exploration of the history of social network sites, Trebor Scholz has developed his own. It is pretty comprehensive: This is a cross-cultural, critical history of social life on the Internet. It captures technical, cultural, and political events that influenced the evolution of computer-assisted person-to-person communication via the net. Acknowledging
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