In 2011, I was commissioned by if:book Australia to write an article on transmedia writing. The article, ‘Do You Have a Big Stick?’, has now been published in their first ebook: Hand Made High Tech, along with a great collections of essays on writing. Throughout 2011, if:book Australia commissioned essays from ten Australian writers on … Read more‘Do You Have a Big Stick?’ for Hand Made High Tech
My chapter for Drew Davidson’s book discusses ways you can create quality cross-media experiences. This is one of the earliest ‘how-to’ books on cross-media published. This text is an introduction to the future of mass media and mass communications – cross-media communications. Cross-media is explained through the presentation and analysis of contemporary examples and project-based … Read more‘Creating Quality Cross-Media Experiences’ for Cross-Media Communications
This paper introduces an emerging form of participatory culture, one that is not a modification or elaboration of a primary producer’s content. Instead, this paper details how the artifacts created to ‘play’ a primary producer’s content has become the primary work for massive global audiences. This phenomenon is observed in the genre of alternate reality … Read more‘Emerging Participatory Culture Practices: Player-Created Tiers in Alternate Reality Games’ for Convergence
The Writer’s Guide to Making a Digital Living is an ebook and online resource on the craft and business of writing in the digital era. It was commissioned in 2008 as part of the Story of the Future program at the Australia Council for the Arts. The project includes case studies from Australia’s rising generation … Read more‘The Writer’s Guide to Making a Digital Living’ for Australian Council for the Arts