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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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Category Archives: Blog
Whopper Virgins
Burger King is really on a roll these days with oddball left-field marketing initiatives like the recently-cancelled Facebook “Friend Sacrifice” app, which enabled users to earn a free Whopper by de-friending ten of their friends on the popular social networking … Continue reading
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Tagged burger king, chris boulton, colonialism, food, kathleen fitzpatrick, marketing, mediacommons, whopper
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IMAP Manifesto
This manifesto describes my intentions, aims and perspectives vis-a-vis my role as a theorist-practitioner both within and beyond the academy. Continue reading
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Tagged anne balsamo, cntv-601, featured, imap, manifestos, usc
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Location-Based Ambient Storytelling
A proposal for a directed research project that seeks to identify and implement a range of context and location-based storytelling techniques. Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, arg, ctin-590, imap, mobile, participation, proposals, sca, storytelling
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Imaging Dolphin Language
Using high definition audio recordings of dolphins, the research team, headed by English acoustics engineer, John Stuart Reid, and Florida-based dolphin researcher, Jack Kassewitz, has been able to image, for the first time, the imprint that a dolphin sound makes … Continue reading
CBC interviews Clay Shirky
This week on Spark, a feature interview with Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. Clay and Nora talk about the pros and cons of social media, new online business models online, and how … Continue reading
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STS-124 Launch Video
Old and clunky though it may be, the Space Shuttle is still awesome. This spectacular video shows a full launch-to-splashdown cycle from the POV of one of the shuttle’s booster rockets.
Fotoplayer
This is what I want for Christmas. Talk about old-skool drum machines! In the early days of silent motion pictures, it was realised that background music had a great influence on the audience. Before movies had sound, many picture theatres … Continue reading
Mir:ror
Not sure about the voice over, but this is actually a pretty great project. I imagine there will be a kind of tipping-point with RFID-reader ubiquity, after which using the Internet of Things will become commonplace. 8:40 am – you’re … Continue reading
Pirates of the Amazon
Some creep just sent a legal threat to the lab where I work because a student bittorrented some software for research. Which is one reason why I was so happy to hear about this project (which, it turns out, was … Continue reading
The Making of ARf: Me, My Dog and iPhone
Proof-of-concept for an augmented reality pet running on an iPhone. Via Games Alfresco.
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