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Jeff Watson is an artist, designer, and Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Games at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
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Tag Archives: transmedia
Haley Moore: Tangible Storytelling and the Laser Lace Letters
Haley Moore is an artist and designer who specializes in using technology to tell stories with objects. Continue reading
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Tagged artifacts, haley moore, kickstarter, laser lace letters, publishing, steampunk, tangible storytelling, transmedia
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Innovation Ecotones
An ecotone — literally, a place where ecologies are in tension — is a transitional area between different biomes, such as the boundary between grassland and forest or between different kinds of forests. Such places are sites for evolutionary dynamism, … Continue reading
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Tagged ann pendleton-jullian, dissertation, ecology, education, innovation ecotones, pervasive games, pervasive learning, transmedia
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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 Fullerton, and me about my dissertation project, Reality Ends Here (A.K.A. SCA Reality, “The Game”, etc): All of this cloak and dagger stuff was part … Continue reading
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Tagged arg, dissertation, reality ends here, sca, simon wiscombe, tracy fullerton, transmedia, usc
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Radiation cats and atomic priesthoods: the Human Interference Task Force
The question of how to mark the places where we store nuclear waste such that people in the distant future won’t do things like build towns or nurseries or farms on top or inside of them is one of my … Continue reading
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Tagged future, gregory benford, human interference task force, nuclear waste, time, transmedia, yucca mountain
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16 June 2014: Tunisian transmedia campaign
16 Juin 2014 is a participatory transmedia event that took place in February of 2011. The project engaged the Tunisian public via a variety of platforms and interactions in playfully imagining the country’s post-revolution future. 16 Juin 2014 was spearheaded … Continue reading
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Tagged 16 juin 2014, future, memac ogilvy label, participation, transmedia
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Spontaneous transmedia combustion: collaborative storytelling, Cooks Source, and the Talking Dead
Online collaborative storytelling is an idea that people seem to get excited about in waves. At the peak of a given wave, designers and observers rightly express confidence that wholly new and powerful kinds of storytelling are just around the … Continue reading
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Tagged cooks source, facebook, jay bushman, the talking dead, transmedia
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Transmedia: New Platforms – The Games of Nonchalance
[This post originally appeared at In Media Res as a part of the Transmedia: New Platforms theme week.] This video is a trailer for “The Games of Nonchalance,” a four-part transmedia experience “woven into the fabric of San Francisco.” Participation … Continue reading
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Tagged in media res, jeff hull, nonchalance, san francisco, transmedia
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A brief history of transmedia world-building
A general outline of transmedia “world-building” practices in a variety of historical and social contexts. Prepared for a guest lecture delivered at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. Continue reading
Posted in Presentations
Tagged hypothetical worlds, steve anderson, transmedia, usc, world building
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Taking risks and dancing with audiences: Andrea Phillips on writing for transmedia and ARGs
In this interview, Andrea Phillips discusses her creative process and the formal and technical limitations (and possibilities) of ARGs and other playful forms of transmedia storytelling. Continue reading
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Tagged andrea phillips, arg, my super first day, routes, science fiction, smokescreen, storytelling, sxsw, transmedia
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Trans-Canada transmedia: Christopher Bolton’s multi-platform search for identity, sound, and story
This interview is a snapshot of Christopher Bolton’s thinking as his transmedia project, In Search of Gordon Lightfoot, moves through the funding process and into the first stages of pre-production. Continue reading