"PopMatters has put this question to our vast staff of cultural critics and have come up with a list of 50 DVDs that every motion picture aficionado should have as part of their own aesthetic assemblage. By no means all inclusive, but definitely the result of much handwringing (and film ...
Chris Dahlen, a contributing writer to publications such as Pitchfork Media, Paste Magazine, The Onion AV Club and The Wire N.H., has started a blog. His blog, Save the Robot, discusses among other things 'transmedia'. Chris says that 'Jenkins and others have defined this concept really well' and wonders what ...
Most of you would be aware that the Halo 3 ARG has begun. It has received quite negative reviews from many gammer-community-ARG-crossovers. It seems that the ARG is breaking design techniques such as: progressive disclosure, choreography of the rollout, audience tiering and player-production facilitation. Conversely, alot of the posts seem ...
In 1980, on a November evening in Los Angeles, pedestrians who walked past the glass windows of the Broadway Department Store noticed something strange…they did not see their reflection. There were other people walking by, just not them. They ended up talking with the alien reflections and realized that they ...
For the past few months I've had the pleasure of mentoring a best-selling UK author through the fabulous De Montfort University Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media program (a course I've been a guest lecturer for). Alison Norrington has written many novels that could be described as 'chick-lit' (is it still ...
A month or so ago I gave a talk at Sydney University called 'Multi-Platform Art Versus Commodity Intertexts'. The aim of the talk was two-fold: to explore just what has changed in the object (entertainment) from so-called marketing tie-ins of the past and 'transmedia' forms of the present as espoused by ...
My grandmother, who passed away just a couple of months ago, was a late-comer to 'new media'. But at the age of 95 she was teaching computers to the 'oldies' in her village. She used to dazzle us by insisting she had the latest software, reeling off features like a ...
SL and RL colleague Angela Thomas -- who was on TV with me last year (see the 7.30 Report link in my press page), edits the Slate Night magazine I write for and is at the same university as me! -- was flown to the US recently to deliver a talk ...
In a previous post I mentioned video trailers being made for books: Harper Collins Trailers and the wonderful Vidlit. Now Simon and Schuster have started doing video podcast (a type of vlogging) on books: BookVideos.tv.
BookVideos.tv offers compelling video stories that give readers insights into some of the world’s best authors. The ...