Henry Jenkins interviews me about Reality Ends Here
Special thanks to Henry Jenkins for conducting a wide-ranging two-part interview with Simon Wiscombe, Tracy…
The amateur operators: notes on early adopters
The hobbyist culture around wireless telegraphy (1906-1912), at once intensely social — as it inherently involved communicating with others — and potentially isolating — as it required technical skills that could only be acquired outside of the flow of ordinary life — bears a striking resemblence to the tinkering subcultures that have attended the rise of home computing, network culture, and social media.
Fandom: An Autoethnography
This paper visualizes a sample of my own fan practices by placing them on a simple x/y grid. Based on this visualization,…
Hypothetical worlds: A better future
This tongue-in-cheek science-fictional paper didn’t work out exactly the way I wished it would, but it’s funny in parts, so I’m posting it here for posterity…
Transmedia and Education: Three Essential Readings
Henry Jenkins’ New Media Literacies class has been a treasure-trove of readings and insights. Three recent articles covered in class struck me as particularly essential for anyone who’s looking to build an understanding of what multimodal communication is and how transmedia relates to education, literacy and literature.
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.
Transmedia Storytelling 101
Henry Jenkins, head of the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT and founding member of the Convergence…