christy My mate Larissa is editing this very interesting edition of Games and Culture journal: Call for papers Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media Special issue: Gaming in the Asia-Pacific As a region, the Asia-Pacific is marked by diverse penetration rates of gaming, mobile and broadband technologies, subject to local cultural and socio-economic nuances. … Read moreGames and Culture CFP
sagasnet have put a call out for projects to participate: sagasnet organizes each year a Developing Interactive Narrative Content seminar in which lectures and intense workshops cover essential subjects to be considered during the development/pre-production phase for interactive entertainment projects. During this Developing Interactive Narrative Content Seminar pre-selected interactive narrative projects in development (no limitation … Read moreDeveloping Interactive Narrative Content seminar CFP
Andy Kessler, a hedge fund manager, has written this interesting but sceptical account of the state of media: Media 2.Uh-Oh.
On Feb 15-17 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA, the first Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction will be helld. Tangible and Embedded Interaction ’07 will be held February 15-17 (just before the famous Mardi Gras festival) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. TEI’07 is the first international conference dedicated to research in tangible and embedded interaction. Work … Read moreConference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction
Tricia Wang — a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at University of California, San Diego — blogs about ‘the nexus of Chinese Youth culture, Media, Technology and Information within a global context’ at YouMeiTi. China, she reported recently, has 830 million phone users and 132 million people online. Tricia is also the current reblogger for Eyebeam.
After my post about the Time Magazine Person of the Year: You, I’ve got to add this neat version enabled by Dan Wood. As he says on his blog, the Time’s cover, with its use of Mylar to have a mirror-looking monitor, is so 20th century. They really should have electronic paper that really did … Read moreI'm really on Time!
These posts on Astrology predictions for those working in the media industry were sent to me by my mum. Philip Sedgwick provides guidance to ‘Story Developers, Programming Execs and Writers’ in part one; and per star-sign guidance for those working in the media industry in part two. Enjoy.
Here are some books, presentations, papers, posts and shows that I either have read and love or don’t have yet but will very shortly: Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams’ update to their ‘…On Game Design’ book: Fundamentals of Game Design (and check out the companion site for designers & educators!); Latest edition of the Design … Read moreMixed Bag o' Goodies again
On Friday December 29th ABC’s 7.30 Report broadcast a segment on Second Life. It featured academic mates Dr Angela Thomas and Sal Humphries — who I have referred to before in my articles on SL (and who also recently wrote this article on gaming and story for The Australian), Entropia maven David Storey and me. … Read moreMe on ABC TV
I bought the December issue of Time Magazine to read about their Person of the Year: You. I was shocked to find the articles full of sensationalist writing about the rise of the person in light of ‘Web 2.0’. It was full of lots of badly researched ideas such as ‘Web 2.0’. The term has … Read morePerson of the Year