I’ve mentioned Mark Burnett’s internet scavenger hunts before, and the Mission Impossible one, now there’s one for the film of the Da Vinci Code: The Da Vinci Code Quest on Google. Everyone is teaming up with Google to create these search games. Search is big and fun, and teaming up with Google just makes your property even more findable. I gave a talk this week in Melbourne on scavenger hunts and other tactics film & TV producers are using. It will be online soon, I’ll let you know. What I like about these games is that they are fun, when done well they persist and compliment the storyworld, they are alot more rewarding than an advergame and they have the potential to be an artform in themselves.
I’m collating lists of awards for cross-media productions and courses in cross-media design.Â
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I don’t have many at this stage. The problem is, of course, that many people don’t realise that cross-media entertainment is an artform in itself, just like a feature film is, or a TV show. There are some cross-media productions that are given awards within the extant parameters, but are not really appropriate. They’re stretching the boundaries really. This is what I have so far, in my wiki:
I know there are more, I’ve come across them but for some reason cannot find them again. Let me know of any awards and courses you’re aware of I could add to these lists.
This journal edition came out a while ago (cna you tell I’m going through my long neglected drafts?), but has some interesting papers on mobility.
Dong-Hoo Lee documents the experiments with self-image and expression now allowed young Korean women by camera phones.
Angel Lin affirms the continuation of older social practices amongst Hong Kong college students using SMS (in the use of SMS to maintain social ties with friends and family, for example).Â
Lin Prøitz finds a surprising amount of gender mobility within the frame of SMSing, even when the rhetoric outside of this frame maintains reasonably strict concepts of gendered behaviours.
Judith Nicholson gives an extensive account of the brief but influential ‘flash mob’ phenomenon, at the same time describing the political potential of mobile networks in terms of new “mobs”.
Larissa Hjorth argues for the enfolding of older forms of communication within SMS and MMS use.
Ingrid Richardson poses the concept of the ‘mobile technosoma’ – a return to thinking through the new kinds of bodily intensity associated with new technical intensities, and both bodily and technical intensities together.
In a delicately argued article grappling with this new sense of place, Rowan Wilken discusses a sense of place profoundly transformed by mobile networks, but not completely dissolved into them.
Felicity Colman and Christian McCrea take all these questions – very old and very new technics, new intensities and new fragmentation, new relations, the infinite deferral of networks and the way this deferral ties everything into a web – in the direction of what they call the ‘digital maypole’.
