Dave Miller emailed me late last year and I only just followed up by checking out his blog and thesis. He has created and researched networked narratives. You can find out about his works at his blog, where you can also get a copy of his Masters: ‘When the Network Becomes An Author: A Critical … Read moreNetworked Narrative Creator & Researcher
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
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
There is a special double episode of Criminal Intent being broadcast in Oz this Sunday that could be akin to what I think is one of the best cross-media works: the Homicide tv show and Second Shift detectives on the web. I’ll explain the Homicide work first. In the late 1990s the Homicide TV show … Read moreDetecting Cross-Media TV
The program for The Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment (IE2005) is now online. It looks like a great mix of subjects (they haven’t listed the speakers unfortunately). I did plan to submit but I didn’t get time to finish a paper. I plan to attend though. It is on the 23-25 November in Sydney, this … Read moreInteractive Entertainment Program Up
One of the most important aspects of cross-media storytelling is having the audience move to each unit of your story. Without the cross-media or cross-story movement, your work collapses. Areas of research and practice that you can utilise are the advertising industry (motivation to buy) and hypertext rhetoric (research into hyperlinked stories). On the former … Read moreImpetus to Act
I’ve spoken twice about the online interactive drama Jupiter Green on this blog: originally when the work was being user-tested online and then about director Kylie Robertson’s latest offering: Girl Friday. Well, now a refereed paper on it is online for the inaugural issue of Performance Paradigm. It is a fascinating and timely journal that … Read moreScholar has moved into Jupiter Green