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My Super First Day

Last year, Andrea Phillips and Jay Bushman of Alchemy Storytelling started an online website called My Super First Day. The idea is anyone can contribute to the fiction: “Think up a superpower and write the story of your first day with it. Did you use your powers for good or evil? Were they [...]

Training wheels off!

Training wheels off!

Ever since I submitted my PhD in December, I’ve allowed myself to go through a necessary and needed transformation. The PhD mind-set was intense for me, not just because of the amount of mental work involved with a PhD and birthing a major creation, but also because of all the career-building work I did at [...]

Update!: PhD submitted & now in the US for MLA and Microsoft SCS

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 [...]

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 have [...]

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/fId0H 
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 creative [...]

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 Practices: [...]

Announcing the launch of The Writer’s Guide to Making a Digital Living

Woohoo!
For a few years I’ve been working with the Australian Literature Board on their Story of the Future project. The project (a big hat tip to Josie Emery for creating the program) involved touring Australia running sessions on how digital technologies can be utilised for storytelling, for marketing your stories and running your writing business. [...]

Latest moments in the press

Hello!
The London Film Festival conference I participated in, Power to the Pixel, (see my last post) is still cranking out material and attracting press. Recently, I was quoted in The Guardian and an interview with me has been published at the PttP site. Both of these are really cool, but there are a couple of [...]

Videos of my Power to the Pixel talks, UC101 posts & another podcast

As I mentioned in my last post, I was lucky to be invited to present at two great events last month: Microsoft Research’s Social Computing Symposium in Seattle, and Power to the Pixel event, which is part of the London Film Festival. The videos of the Microsoft event aren’t up yet, but I will be [...]

I've just submitted a PhD on a new form of storytelling & gaming; consulting to clients on cross-platform projects; and I am developing my own projects.
This site is the main hub of my various blogs: Cross-MediaEntertainment.com [Internet Archive], UniverseCreation101.com, WriterResponseTheory.org, Transmodiologist.org and CompletionofBeginnings.com.
Contact me via email: christy at this domain.

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