Italy now has a representative on our International Cross-Media Round-Table (there isn’t one, but wouldn’t that be fun?). There is definately a cross-media researcher and practitioner in Italy right now. Max Giovagnoli is an editor and presenter at Blue Channel TV, he edited the Italian Big Brother and has 3 nonfiction books out: To Write

The notion of cross-media storytelling is creeping into academic and art. A sibling concept, ‘distributed aesthetics’, is being bandied about at a few ‘spaces’. Here are a couple in Australia: Fibreculture Journal: upcoming Distributed Aesthetics Issue It has been widely argued by sociologists, cultural and media theorists such as Manuel Castells, Arjun Appardurai and Geert

I’m excited! The Second Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment is calling for papers at the mo and will be held November this year, in Sydney. The themes they posit that are relevant to me are: Advanced/Innovative Interaction DesignArt, Design and MediaCulturaland Media Studies on Computer GamesInteraction designInteractiveDigital StorytellingMedia TheoryMobile EntertainmentNetworking (technical and social)New Genres, New