Academic
Damn, this is what plagiarism looks like.
Latest update: 18th Nov 2011: The CEO of InaGlobal, François Quinton, contacted me last week to let me know he will be investigating my complaint. He contacted me yesterday to let me know that unfortunately my complaint was correct. They took the article down on Monday. I’m contacted François, thanking him for following this up and [...]
CFP: Crossmedia Innovations: Texts, Markets, Institutions, Education
I often get invites to be a part of books on trans/cross-media, but rarely have the time to be a part of them. When the call for papers is open, I share the details. So here is one for the scholars out there: CALL FOR PAPERS Edited book: “Crossmedia Innovations: Texts, Markets, Institutions, Education” Editors: Dr. Indrek Ibrus [...]
The End of a Chapter, My Sahara
Seven years ago I started the thesis which I am today releasing to the world. The past seven years have been hard. I have worked day and night, seven days a week for years. Spent hundreds of hours watching, clicking and reading creative projects; read tons and tons of books and research papers for lots [...]
CFP: Re-thinking Film and Media Production
Here is a great call-for-papers on a topic that aligns with my dissertation approach: Northern Lights. Volume 10 (2012). Volume editors: Mette Mortensen & Eva Novrup Redvall. Re-thinking Film and Media Production: Creativity, Convergence and Participation Deadline for abstracts: December 15, 2010 Full articles to be delivered on March 15, 2011. The 2012 volume of Northern Lights [...]
Parody and Design
As many of you would be aware, the World Bank is behind a new online game called Evoke. EVOKE trailer (a new online game) from Alchemy on Vimeo. What is interesting is that already — while there has been much publicity before the game, it officially started on March 3rd — a parody has been created. Invoke is described as an [...]
Cards Games to Develop Design Skills
A few years ago I started developing a card game to teach transmedia design skills. I had to put it aside because of work and study commitments, but now I’m keen to develop it again. As part of my research into this I looked at a few design card games and so I’d share them [...]
Tips on turning your dissertation into a book
In Twitter, I noticed Matt Gold (@mkgold) shared tweets being delivered by (@fhi_duke – Franklin Humanities Institute). The tweeter was at a session about turning your dissertation into a book. The talk was by Ken Wissoker, the Editorial Director of Duke University Press (@kwissoker). I thought the info was great, and so I’m posting here the tweets [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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