Eighteen months ago I submitted an essay idea to Henry Jenkins and Mark Deuze for their special issue of the Convergence journal. The essay, titled ‘Emerging Participatory Culture Practices: Player-Created Tiers in Alternate Reality Games’ is in the publication and is now available online. I’ve created a website to go with the essay for a few reasons….some of which is to provide general-reader designer-oriented content, to provide the basic info it wasn’t appropriate to put in an analytical essay and because the copyright agreement is that I cannot publish the essay on my site for a year. Here is the full list of contents:

• Henry Jenkins and Mark Deuze > Editorial: Convergence Culture
• danah boyd > Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck: Exposure, Invasion, and Social Convergence
• Neil Perryman > Doctor Who and the Convergence of Media: A Case Study in `Transmedia Storytelling’
• Christy Dena > Emerging Participatory Culture Practices: Player-Created Tiers in Alternate Reality Games
• Hector Postigo > Video Game Appropriation through Modifications: Attitudes Concerning Intellectual Property among Modders and Fans
• Daren C. Brabham > Crowdsourcing as a Model for Problem Solving: An Introduction and Cases
• Larissa Hjorth > Being Real in the Mobile Reel: A Case Study on Convergent Mobile Media as Domesticated New Media in Seoul, South Korea
• Gunn Sara Enli > Redefining Public Service Broadcasting: Multi-Platform Participation
• Samantha Lay > Book Review: Barbara Klinger. Beyond the Multiplex: Cinema, New Technologies, and the Home
• Melissa Gregg > Book Review: Mark Nunes. Cyberspaces of Everyday Life

I look forward to reading the other essays. I hope this issue provokes some conversations, please send through your thoughts on the comments here or via email. I’d love to hear them.