Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
I’m writing from FROG 2011, the Vienna conference on videogames. This conference is unlike any other I’ve been to in a range of ways: it’s my first game studies conference, which means the range of presenters and disciplinary backgrounds is broader and more eclectic than at the typical television or media studies conference. It’s sponsored [...]
Filed under: Narrative, New Media, Technology, TV Shows, Videogames | 7 Comments
Tags: Lost, portal, transmedia
Wikis and Participatory Fandom
One of my writing projects this summer was to write a book chapter for a forthcoming anthology called Routledge Handbook of Participatory Cultures, edited by Aaron Delwiche and Jennifer Henderson (forthcoming in 2011 from Routledge, of course). The handbook is designed to offer accessible introductions to a wide array of facets of participatory culture, suitable [...]
Filed under: Academia, Fandom, Media Studies, New Media, Technology | 3 Comments
Tags: wiki, Wikipedia
One month with an iPad
I received my iPad on April 8. Since then, many people have asked how I like it – my common response is that it’s too soon to tell what I’ll actually do with it. Unlike most technologies, the iPad doesn’t neatly fit into preexisting categories of practice and expectation, and like most technologies, there are [...]
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Tags: iPad
Why a book?
I’ve just finished the fifth and final day of the marathon Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference in LA, and it was by far one of the best large-scale conferences I’ve ever been to. I attended no bad panels, and only a couple of weak papers – which is pretty rare! Either I got [...]
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Tags: digital humanities, publishing, scms
Serial Boxes
Last summer, I was invited as a keynote presenter for a conference on serial form at the University of Zurich – I blogged previously about the conference and my presentation. Now the conference organizers are publishing the proceedings, translating all of the English papers into German. Since I spoke off an outline, I needed to [...]
Filed under: Academia, Media Studies, Narrative, Technology, Television, Viewers | 13 Comments
Tags: Battlestar, bsg, dvd, Lost, Six Feet Under, The Wire
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 [...]
Filed under: Academia, Fandom, New Media, Technology, Television, TV Shows, Viewers | 2 Comments
Tags: Lost, lostpedia, wiki
One of the pleasures of working with Middlebury College students is advising independent work on their senior projects. While I don’t have the opportunity to work with graduate students on their dissertations, every once in awhile I have undergraduate students who do exemplary work that feels quite similar to a condensed version of the graduate [...]
Filed under: Media Studies, Middlebury, Narrative, Technology, Television, TV Shows | 1 Comment
Tags: Lost, transmedia
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, [...]
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Tags: tools
Since I moved to Vermont in 2002, I have been on the board of Middlebury Community Television, our local public access channel. Yesterday, the board sponsored a community media forum, where we invited members of our community to come together to discuss the role of a small public access channel in a small town today [...]
Filed under: Media Politics, Middlebury, Technology, Television, TV Industry, Vermont | 5 Comments
Tags: public access
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
Life Imitates TiVo
One great feature of TiVo (and potentially other DVRs, but I’m an exclusive TiVotee) is that live broadcasts are always buffered for 30 minutes, allowing you to rewind or pause on the fly. A quirk in the system allows you to press a button and go back to the beginning of the buffer (or the [...]
Filed under: Technology, Viewers | 6 Comments
Tags: random thoughts, tivo
random thoughts from media scholar Jason Mittell
Check out my books:
Complex TV: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling
Television & American Culture
Genre and Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture-
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