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Lostpedia and Wiki Fandom Article

15Sep09

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 [...]


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Twitter ambivalence

24Aug09

I joined Twitter this past Spring, in large part because I saw the great usefulness of the platform at a conference – I was at MIT6 and surrounded by people having backchannel conversations via Twitter. So I joined on the spot, and spent a few months trying to figure out how it fits my own [...]


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Looking for a Comparative Media Scholar

03Aug09

One of the most interesting, exhausting, frustrating, and exciting things you can do as a faculty member is serving on a search committee–interesting to see the broad range of work that emerging scholars are doing, exhausting from the time it takes to read hundreds of files and conduct lengthy interviews, frustrating because in the end [...]


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Trapped in a web of meta-Wikipedia

06May09

I stumbled across this article via Google Alerts discussing the varying practices within Wikipedia. I discovered it because one of the examples it uses is… my Wikipedia entry:
Jason Mittell’s case is similar. His biography concludes with some quotes from a New York Times article in which he defended Wikipedia against the charge that it represented [...]


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Essential tools for navigating digital culture

10Apr09

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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To Spread or To Drill?

25Feb09

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 [...]


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The media library in a post-disc world

06Jan09

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 [...]


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Best of 2008

31Dec08

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 [...]


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Vlad and Boris speak!

02Dec08

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 [...]


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Teaching Technology: Video Games

12May08

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 [...]


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When I was a kid…

04May08

This is not a nostalgic post, nor is it an attempt to judge the present on the standards of the past. And I’m not trying to tell any kids to get off my lawn.
Rather it just struck me that there’s a pretty big shift in the media ecosystem. Actually, this isn’t news to anyone who [...]


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Anonymity and its Discontents

03May08

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 [...]


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Teaching Technology: Remix Video

22Apr08

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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Teaching Technology: Audio

09Apr08

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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Lost In Media Res

13Feb08

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 [...]


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