2009
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Update!: PhD submitted & now in the US for MLA and Microsoft SCS
Whew!! I did it!!!!! I finally submitted my PhD!!!!!! It has been a crazy few years finishing that thesis writing up and doing all the travel and work stuff at the same time. I’ll share more about the content of my thesis, the research and writing process and lessons learned soon. I’ll also be sharing [...]
Multi-Platform at the Whistler Film Festival 09
My next trip will be to the Whistler Film Festival, BC, Canada. Wohoo! I’ve been invited to participate in their Forum, which “is an industry conference organized to address issues of concern to the film, digital media and television production industry in Western Canada”. This year they “are embracing the changing landscape of content creation [...]
Videos and slides from Power to the Pixel, London Film Festival
 As I outlined in a previous post, I was fortunate to be invited back to be a part of Power to the Pixel, London Film Festival 2009. The videos and slides are now online and so here is a selection of ones I’m sure you’ll enjoy/get something out of.   Take Back What Has [...]
Creative Writing & New Media and Transliteracy @ De Montfort Uni
A few years ago I was fotunate to be invited to participate in De Montfort University’s online Masters in Creative Writing and New Media programme. It was created by Sue Thomas and Kate Pullinger, and had wonderful aims: The degree was designed for writers interested in experimenting with new formats and was informed by contemporary thinking [...]
What’s Happening?!
Hello! Well, it has been a long time between posts and so you’re all probably wondering what is going on. As you know, I’ve been working on getting my PhD finished. I’ve had a few things delay its completion and so it isn’t done yet. But since I’ve been a hermit for so long, and [...]
Report on Social Web Foo Camp 2009
A couple of months ago I was fortunate to be invited to the O’Reilly Social Web FOO Camp in San Francisco. Australian new media arts organisation dLux Media Arts was one of my sponsors for the trip, and so I’ve published my report on their site: http://bit.ly/fId0HÂ Enjoy!
1st Issue of Second Nature is out!
I’m on the Editorial Board of a new journal called Second Nature: International Journal of Creative Media. Here is the focus and scope of the journal: Second Nature: The International Journal of Creative Media is a new open access, peer-reviewed online journal that explores the distinctive particulars of and interconnections between textual, visual, aural and interactive [...]
2 of my papers (which are 2 years old) are now public!
Ah, the publishing cycle. Two papers that I wrote 2 years ago are now available freely online. Times have changed since then (this is the problem with researching current rather than past phenomena), and I wouldn’t describe things in the same way, but there is still lots of value there. Dena, C. (2008) ‘Emerging Participatory Culture [...]
Released: ARGs Around the World data!!
Over a year ago I started gathering data on the state of ARGs Around the World. I was interested in how many ARGs are created and experienced outside of the regular countries of USA, UK and Canada…and Australia (data for these is on my ARG Stats page). I was particularly interested in non-English-language ARGs and non-USA [...]
On Seeing: There’s Gold in Them Thar “FAILS”
I’ve been seeing a lot of negative ‘FAIL’ rhetoric lately in social media about social media campaigns, or anything really. Many of the negatives are from social media commentators, but also come from a wider range of sources. Indeed, it is all too easy (and sometimes fun) to join the chorus. But what concerns me [...]
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