Archive for the 'New Media' Category
Just a quick pointer to my newest publication: in the new issue of Transformative Works and Cultures, I’ve published “Sites of Participation: Wiki Fandom and the Case of Lostpedia.”Here’s the abstract:
This essay explores the award-winning fan site Lostpedia to examine how the wiki platform enables fan engagement, structures participation, and distinguishes between various forms of [...]
Filed under: Academia, Fandom, New Media, TV Shows, Technology, Television, Viewers | 2 Comments
Tags: Lost, lostpedia, wiki
I’ve been asked by my friend/colleague/Dean/Provost Tim Spears to contribute to his blog, One Dean’s View, offering a post on a few digital tools that I find essential for navigating my digital life. Here’s what I had to say, reblogged:
I am known as one of the more technologically engaged/addicted faculty members at Middlebury. Luckily, it [...]
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Tags: tools
To Spread or To Drill?
I was invited by Henry Jenkins, Josh Green, and Sam Ford to contribute to a book project they are working on, Spreadable Media: Creating Value in a Network Culture.You can see an outline of the project posted serially on Henry’s blog, emerging from a research paper drafted as part of the Convergence Culture Consortium. The [...]
Filed under: Books, Fandom, Media Studies, Narrative, New Media, Television, Viewers | 6 Comments
Tags: Battlestar, bsg, complexity, Lost, lostpedia
I’ve read a number of articles like this one, speculating on the potential future of the Blu-ray disc as media platform in the wake of online delivery of HD content. As a consumer and viewer, I’m heartened by this, as I’ve not jumped on the Blu-ray train yet. Moreover, I see a lot of potential [...]
Filed under: Academia, Copyright, Fair Use, Media Studies, New Media, Technology | 6 Comments
Tags: blu-ray, dvd, library
Best of 2008
One of the great gifts of having a blog is the opportunity to spout off opinions as if they are truth. And the end of the year is the time for bold opinions that quantify the previous year, often in multiples of ten. I thought about offering a TV Top Ten for the year, but [...]
Filed under: Film, New Media, Not Quite TV, TV Shows, Television | 6 Comments
Tags: 30 rock, Battlestar, breaking bad, bsg, celtics, chuck, colbert, daily show, dark knight, death cab, dj earworm, dr. horrible, friday night lights, gta4, Lost, middleman, portal, pushing daisies, rachel maddow, radiohead, red sox, the bad plus, the office, The Wire, true blood, tv on the radio
Vlad and Boris speak!
On October 14, a YouTube video appeared on a new account entitled “vlad and friend boris presents ‘Song for Sarah’ for mrs. Palin”:
It bore no identifying markers of its creation beyond the names Vlad and Boris. A music video attesting a Russian crush on Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, it slowly [...]
Filed under: Media Politics, Narrative, New Media | 2 Comments
Tags: election, music video, online video, sarah palin, youtube
Teaching Technology: Video Games
Here’s the third entry in my series of posts highlighting my students’ work from my Media Technology course. One key medium that we studied was videogames, and it has been a challenge to think about how to create a project that allows students to make media criticism using videogame technology – if I had the [...]
Filed under: Middlebury, New Media, Teaching, Technology, Videogames | 1 Comment
Tags: machinima, rock band
Anonymity and its Discontents
Over the past week or so, the Middlebury College campus has been abuzz about the new site Middlebury Confessional. The site is part of a chain of Confessional sites that started at my alma mater, Oberlin College – this article outlines some of the controversies surrounding other incarnations of the sites. I’m quite interested in [...]
Filed under: Middlebury, New Media, Not Quite TV | 4 Comments
Tags: confessional
Teaching Technology: Remix Video
Following up my previous post sharing my students’ projects in my Media Technology course, the second assignment was to create a remix video that in some way offered a critical examination of media, posting it to YouTube to potentially generate some feedback from people who stumble across it. One of my pet peeves about teaching [...]
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Tags: mashup, remix video, youtube
Teaching Technology: Audio
Another unfortunate gap between blogging. Let’s just say that March did not go out like a lamb, with numerous personal and professional traumas, hiccups & hurdles causing stress and eating away time.
I’ve been meaning to post some reflections on my Media Technology & Cultural Change course for awhile, as my students this semester have been [...]
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Tags: audio, podcast
Lost In Media Res
Just a quick pointer to any Losties reading the blog – this week I’m participating in a series of Lost video commentaries at In Media Res. So far, Roberta Pearson has posted about the mobisodes, Will Brooker about the season 3 finale, and Stacey Abbott about shipping fanvids – coming soon are entries from Julian [...]
Filed under: Fandom, MediaCommons, New Media, TV Shows, Television | Leave a Comment
Tags: in media res, Lost






