When C3 was first booting up in 2005, our circle of students would speak wistfully of how the Internet could have saved Joss Whedon's Firefly or Warren Ellis' Global Frequency. Although both of those properties seem to be dead or at least comatose, their creators have each announced new Internet-launched properties. …
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MIT Convergence Culture Consortium: Weblog
The MIT Convergence Culture Consortium examines the ways in which the collision of old and new technologies are affecting transmedia storytelling, fan communities, new forms of advertisement and product placement, and social networking.
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Internet Media For Niche Audiences (Not The FCC)
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The Dangerous World of a GPS That Does Not Exist
http://www.convergenceculture.org/weblog/2008/06/the_dangerous_world_of_a_gps_t.phpEvery now and then something crosses my inbox that makes my jaw drop. Sometimes it's genius, sometimes it's astonishingly crass, and sometimes it's a combination of the two. This morning's report from DVICE.com on the Mio Knight Rider GPS is definitely a category three jaw-dropper. …
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Nancy Baym: The Biggest Online Fans are Sports Fans
http://www.convergenceculture.org/weblog/2008/06/nancy_baym_the_biggest_online.phpBelow is a post Consulting Research Nancy Baym wrote for Online Fandom recently. Responding to a report about the propensity for sports fans to use the Internet while watching TV, Baym speculates on the relationship between media use and the intensity of watching sport. …
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PepperDigital
http://pepperdigital.typepad.comthe differences between a James Taylor and Jay-Z concert has driven me to think a little bit more about the intersection of storytelling and technology. As anyone who reads the blog regularly knows, I came to Peppercom by way of MIT, where we spent a lot of time studying narrative in a digital age, and the potentials of "transmedia storytelling." The key to the phrase transmedia storytelling (or any other term we want to use for a narrative that branches across multiple media
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Geoffrey Long: Tip of the Quill
http://www.geoffreylong.com/journalMan, I gotta learn to pace myself. In addition to my own entry this morning, "On Maps and Legends," I also posted two more essays on the MIT blogs: "WiiWare, PSN, XBLA and the Long Tail" on the GAMBIT blog and "The Dangerous World of a GPS That Does Not Exist" on the C3 blog. Hey, when you're on a roll...
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Teevee: 3
http://galaxyofemptiness.blogspot.com/2008/07/teevee-3.htmla programme might be repeatedly discussed in a number of academic sources because it sustains an active fan community. A fairly substantial body of literature exists, for example, around Science Fiction programs and their fan communities, including Star Trek and Doctor Who fandom. Just reading back over what I've written above, I'm aware that I've seemed to imply there's a fundamental difference in the kinds of values that academic and popular sources apply when judging television texts. The argument
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Jeffrey Wright
http://coast.northcoastrecords.com/blog/2008/07/jeffrey-wrig...http://chadjwanadiv.wordpress.com http://antexplorer.net http://veotvgratis.blogspot.com http://oradeinfo.edublogs.org http://basenexus.blogspot.com http://diariodeumcricri.blogspot.com http://andersenhuang.blogspot.com http://convergenceculture.org/weblog jeffrey wright, daniel craig, paul giamatti, mads mikkelsen, bryce dallas howard, eva green, judi dench, bob balaban, m. night shyamalan, giancarlo giannini, vincent kartheiser, brad greenquist, simon abkarian, caterina murino, sarita choudhury,
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Designing for What Web 2.0 Is Good At
http://pepperdigital.typepad.com/pepperdigital/2008/07/desig...the differences between a James Taylor and Jay-Z concert has driven me to think a little bit more about the intersection of storytelling and technology. As anyone who reads the blog regularly knows, I came to Peppercom by way of MIT, where we spent a lot of time studying narrative in a digital age, and the potentials of "transmedia storytelling." The key to the phrase transmedia storytelling (or any other term we want to use for a narrative that branches across multiple media
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Jon Benet
http://folks.primitivefolks.com/blog/2008/07/jon-benet.htmljon benet tags: jon benet jon benet links: http://doresist.blogspot.com http://florentgayte.hautetfort.com http://lykeio6o.blogspot.com http://mathaquarium.blogs.sapo.pt http://bestatterweblog.de http://convergenceculture.org/weblog http://no1size.innori.com http://morninglory.biz http://dandragomir.biz http://is4real.zc.bz jon benet, iraq, military, media, politics, war, bush, terrorism, usa, iran, democrats, afghanistan, army, britain, religion, video, peace, us, government,
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Bernaisesource
http://bernaisesource.blog.comLooking for other examples of social media's influence? Consider: Radiohead album's Rainbow. Radiohead made news last year when they announced that they were going to let their fans determine what they wanted to pay for their music. Or look at Soulja Boy who rivaled more established musicians by using YouTube to distribute Crank Dat or Colbie Caillat who achieved fame through MySpace. Curtis James Jackson III aka 50 Cent aka Fiddy declared “What is important for the music industry to understand is
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Prodigeek by Michael C. Sherrin
http://mikecs.net/prodigeekThe Searing Laugh Of Joss Whedon's Dr. Horrible [Dr. Horrible's Singalong Blog] (io9)Report: US must have universal gigabit broadband by 2015 (Ars Technica)While We're Making Suggestions To The AP, How About Not Disappearing The News? (Techdirt)Nancy Baym: The Biggest Online Fans are Sports Fans (Convergence Culture Consortium (C3@MIT))Is Obama a Secret Vulcan? (Confessions of an Aca/Fan)MPAA Says No Proof Needed in P2P Copyright Infringement Lawsuits (David Kravets/Threat Level) (memeorandum
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Cultural Interface Imagineerings
http://www.fantasyrecords.co.uk/conkerblogBlogroll Boxes & Arrows Brenda Laurel Convergence Culture Development Blog Documentation Gamasutra Grand Text Auto Guardian Technology Blog Henry Jenkins Ludology Mobile Audience Plugins Sketching Interaction design Smartmobs Suggest Ideas Support Forum TED Blog
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No Virtual Handshakes: Remember That the "Virtual" Doesn't Exist Outside the "Real" World
http://pepperdigital.typepad.com/pepperdigital/2008/06/no-vi...virtual world" as something disconnected from everything else. After all, these are technological tools that still connect us in our everyday life, not a way that we can somehow transcend living. As I wrote back in April for the MIT Convergence Culture Consortium: The idea of a "virtual world" existing as separate from one's own world, rather than a technological tool to communicate in "the real world," is the type of technological determinist view we steer away from
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