Interactive Media

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Anita Sarkeesian talks about online misogyny in the video game community, and her experience with harassment because of her work. She is a media critic and the creator of Feminist Frequency, a video webseries that explores the representations of women in pop culture narratives. Most interesting is her actual project which can be found here. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBBDFEC9F5893C4AF

In case no one caught this when it went viral.

Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory

A necessary development...

I've been following Christy Dena for many years. She interviewed Craig Freeman in Second Life back in 2006

Not only is this amazing news but Lauren Silberman is conducting research at MIT about how athletes playing games helps them perform better.

a great article that Esau has recently blogged about and that speaks to our ongoing conversation about selfhood in electracy

There was some talk of including a comic in collab. project...

I thought this was a great write up and relevant to our program as a whole. Fast Company's Co.Create is also a great outlet to keep up with Interactive in terms of it meeting art and commerce

Brandon - you are one of my favorite people - for so many reasons, this is one of them.

A novel released in 1500 word segments each day through an iphone application. Part of the work can only be read if physically in the geolocation which coordinates with the text. These optional side stories, called "field reports", are tied back into the larger narrative. They are written in relation to the surroundings which they are placed, so the reader is getting visual cues by the setting. By Matthew Derby. He is also the senior interface designer for Harmonix. 

This is pretty cool! Another Emerson VMA student, Frank Horton, had a start up company that was attempting to do something similar to this idea.

My first semester thesis in Jane's theory class was focused on Transmedia storytelling and how The Hunger Games was poised to be a successful transmedia campaign. Often mistaken for marketing ploys (which yes, some are) I predicted that this was going to happen. Needless to say Jane didn't really agree and gave me a B - however, here we are moving forward in the Hunger Game's series and oh - what's this? Immortalizing the characters and making the Hunger Games' actually come to life. I know we aren't up to Transmedia yet but I wanted to share this because transmedia storytelling is a huge topic and one that I will continuously aim to explore here at Emerson.

This could be another option for your next/second project....

just rediscovered this "book" or collection of "books."

What do you think will be the WAAAAAY OF THE FUUUUTUUURREEE: educational games or creating lesson plans around mainstream games (the better question may be, how these things will manifest)?

Schooling is already a game. Point systems, frequent feedback, rewards. The first step is to recognize that. Second step is to use technology to implement on smaller scales, by which I mean minute to minute instead of week to week or semester to semester(which we see here). Honestly it is done already in kindergarden with the stars on the board acting as a leaderboard. I am confused as to why that is abandoned after graduating to 3rd or 4th grade(we "grow out" of one of the best forms of motivation?!). Gamifying schools is a matter of refinement not overhaul. The question to me is what should be rewarded.

An Argo, in an article we read, is a boat that was completely replaced: "Argo is an object with no other cause than its name, with no other identity than its form." I have been told that the human body is an Argo, that it replaces all its cells every 7 years, we are only structure, pattern. Current evidence says this is not true, some matter remains: "About the only pieces of the body that last a lifetime, on present evidence, seem to be the neurons of the cerebral cortex, the inner lens cells of the eye and perhaps the muscle cells of the heart."

Henry Jenkins, the father of convergence culture, writes about visual linguistics of comics and graphic storytelling. Comics are a great gateway into Transmedia storytelling.

Mazzuchelli is one of my favorite artists in comics; not only because of Batman: Year One or Daredevil: Born Again (both amazing works), but also the City of Glass comic in the article. What's so powerful about this piece is how it talks about comics bringing the picture plane and language together, what McCloud in "Making Comics" refers to as "montage." Thank you!