Serendipity, ubicomp, and “over-coded smart cities”: an interview with Mark Shepard, creator of Serendipitor
Mark Shepard is an artist, architect and researcher whose post-disciplinary practice addresses new social…
Dokobots: findable, sharable virtual playthings embedded in real space
Dokobots looks to be a great little geogame, with clever mechanics that push pervasive location-based participatory…
Exam Area I: New media spaces, or: Alternate Realities, Database Aesthetics, and the Poetics of Space
[This post is a part of a series covering my qualifying exam research areas. Scroll to the bottom of this post…
Building a database of research artifacts
This post is a part of a series covering my qualifying exam research areas. Scroll to the bottom of this post for…
Ambient Storytelling for Vehicle-Driver Interaction
This project explores how in-car sensor systems can be integrated with cloud computing and social media services to make possible new modes of storytelling, interaction and engagement.
twitter.com/ironmanx28
Steve Anderson’s Twitter feed.…
ironmanx28: Holly Willis from current issue of Filmmaker Magazine: what film schools need to stay relevant in the future http://t.co/a6N2xYoz
Posted 28 October 2011 | 7:12 pm
ironmanx28: You have to play the game to find out why you're playing the game #scareality #diydays
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ironmanx28: a new research project investigating connections between #tenure and health problems in #highered: http://t.co/skPbI02
Posted 1 September 2011 | 8:03 pm
ironmanx28: #nehvectors Caroline Levander on multi-institutional archive to facilitate trans-national research on the Americas http://bit.ly/aspchA
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ironmanx28: @ericbot key difference is Scalar's capacity for data-driven info architecture vs. Sophie's focus on UI/UX design/presentation #nehvectors
Posted 3 August 2011 | 7:59 pm
twitter.com/tmcphers
Tara McPherson’s Twitter feed.…
tmcphers: Worth a try (and it's not digital): http://t.co/kRxhpjBf
Posted 5 February 2012 | 5:59 am
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Posted 4 February 2012 | 6:20 am
tmcphers: @DUKEpress Make that Call for Papers AND PROJECTS on New Media/Digital Humanities from American Literature: http://t.co/0dAnqLdT
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tmcphers: RT @Stanford: Philosopher Martha Nussbaum insists that humanities education sustains democracy http://t.co/s53WGjFs (via @stanforddaily)
Posted 3 February 2012 | 6:40 pm
remotedevice.net
Feed for remotedevice.net…
Berkeley Talk: Transforming Community Through Pervasive Play
Posted 25 January 2012 | 7:54 pm
Play, writing, and the pleasures of complex dynamic systems
Posted 11 January 2012 | 2:29 am
Metropolis II
Posted 11 January 2012 | 1:12 am
An essential archipelago of opportunity
Posted 5 January 2012 | 5:24 pm
Mogees: Realtime Gesture Recognition with Contact Microphones
Posted 4 January 2012 | 4:44 pm
Taking risks and dancing with audiences: Andrea Phillips on writing for transmedia and ARGs
In this interview, Andrea Phillips discusses her creative process and the formal and technical limitations (and possibilities) of ARGs and other playful forms of transmedia storytelling.
Trans-Canada transmedia: Christopher Bolton’s multi-platform search for identity, sound, and story
This interview is a snapshot of Christopher Bolton’s thinking as his transmedia project, In Search of Gordon Lightfoot, moves through the funding process and into the first stages of pre-production.
Designing interactions in the flow: tagging books at Bibliotheek Haarlem Oost
Nina K. Simon’s excellent paper, “Going Analog: Translating Virtual Learnings into Real Institutional Change,” describes how designers can approach integrating new user behaviors into existing ones — and why it’s often essential to do so.
What I’m seeing at SXSWi
I’ll be at SXSWi from Friday, March 12th until Monday, March 15th. Here’s what I’m thinking of checking out while I’m there.
Learning by ARG: an interview with Mela Kocher Lennstroem
Mela Kocher Lennstroem is a Swiss games researcher currently living in San Diego, where she conducts post-doctoral research on “the blurring of reality and fiction in digital media, especially in ARGs.”
ARG readings and reflections: an annotated bibliography
This resource contains links to blog posts, conference papers, journal articles, and other texts related to alternate reality gaming.
RSS subscribers: do not adjust your set
Anyone using an RSS reader to access the content on this site may have noticed a sudden flood of micro-posts (about 20 of them) on Thursday, February 11th. The reason this happened is because I have started to use a great plugin called FeedWordpress to aggregate all my tweets from Twitter.
Content management and delivery tools for indie ARG producers
By using and mashing-up freely-available social media, mobile technology, and web publishing tools, ARG producers with shoestring budgets can roll their own custom ARG management and delivery systems.
is this ARG?
is this ARG? is a curated social media aggregator that gathers feeds from the alternate reality gaming community.
Online, Reading
Reading a novel is an intense experience. Even lowly grocery store thrillers are complex and multimodal textual-linguistic…
Blackboard Kills
Blackboard is an impediment to scholarship, and the sooner universities stop using it, the better.
Special Notice: Update Your Feeds
For anyone who’s watching this space via RSS/Atom: I’ve changed how things work around here a…