Yep, that is right, there is actually a newsletter with yummy tidbits of papers, conferences, articles and so on. The newsletter is dedicated to ‘convergence’ — which is known traditionally as an environmental factor affecting cross-media storytelling. However, convergence is described in a manner that is close to our hearts: At its most basic?and most … Read moreA Newsletter for all the cross-media researchers out there!
A half-day executive workshop has my researcher and practitioner mouth dribbling. In Dallas, Texas on March 22 is Media Opportunities and Strategies for the Multiple Media Enterprise: The event, sponsored by the American Press Institute, focuses on how to create and sell innovative content and information services for connected, multiple-media audiences. Among the topics are … Read moreWish I Had a Dream Researcher Budget
Kylie Robertson, the creator behind Jupiter Green, an “interactive drama” that I have posted and written about (refereed paper coming out soon) is in pre-production on a “mobile interactive drama series”: Glued to your mobile phone? SMS crazy? Got no time for TV but love a good drama? Girl Friday (GF) is here and it’s … Read moreThe Caught-with-the-Hair-in-Curlers Aesthetic
Saw this Error Message Generator on Drew’s blog and couldn’t help but create some popups that a user/interactor/operator/reader/vuser/viuser/wreader/player etc may come across: Let me know if you come up with any too!
Lisbeth Klastrup completed her PhD in 2003 but has put it online for 1 month. ‘Towards a Poetics of Virtual Worlds: Multi-User Textuality and the Emergence of Story’ was completed at the Department for Digital Aesthetics and Communication (DIAC), IT University of Copenhagen. Klastrup began looking at, playing, immersing herself in ‘interactive narratives’ in 1996 … Read morePerspectives Abound: from 'distributed narrative' to 'transmedial worlds'
Following the previous post on Tom Apperley is the inclusion of another cross-media researcher, focusing on games: Drew Davidson. Drew contacted myself, and Monique, excited about finding other researchers in this area. Whereas Monique and myself were beginning our research at the beginning of the millenium, Davidson had just completed a dissertation. Davidson completed his … Read moreCrossmedia and Games researcher 2
Tom Apperley, fellow cross-media researcher at the University of Melbourne (different department though), is publishing his thesis-in-progress online. Appereley is focusing on the game, specifically console, dimension of cross-media (where games are an ‘intertextual commodity’), and on ‘interactivity’. He is also doing a valuable ethnographic comparison of Venezuelan and Australian gamers. His posts include: Preliminary … Read moreTom Apperley's research is now online
The 5th Symposium on Art and Multimedia Metanarrative is being held on the 28th and 29th of Jan (did anyone else know about this?!) and seems to be an interesting theme: Fruit of having entered into complex formal systems, one could speak of the formulations made following the narrative/non-narrative duality of the meatnarrative (applying the … Read moreNon-Narrative Narratology?
I have just discovered that I have been deleting emails that are inquiries re this site and not spam. If you’ve sent me an email and I haven’t responded — try again, all should be good now. How can you tell if someone is ignoring you if you’ve never met them? And how can I … Read moreIf I ignored you…
It is here: Monique’s paper from her session at the European Information Society Event that I contributed to is online as a pdf: Crossmedia communication in the dynamic knowledge society Paper offered to the European CommissionDG Information SocietyReport of the IST Networking session N2815 November 2004 The Hague The paper is well skewed for policy … Read moreEuropean Commission receives good news