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iMAPpenning Slides: Design Research Practice

Posted on May 4, 2011 by Jeff Watson

Slides summarizing my doctoral design and research practice. Presented at “iMAPpening,” a group show featuring my colleagues in Media Arts and Practice at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Continue reading →

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Exam Area III: Interaction Design for Social Media and Pervasive Computing

Posted on Nov 24, 2010 by Jeff Watson

This post is a part of a series covering my qualifying exam research areas. Scroll to the bottom of this post for links to each area, or click here for a general description of the process. Description As devices and … Continue reading →

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Exam Area II: History and Theories of Participatory Culture and Art Practice

Posted on Nov 24, 2010 by Jeff Watson

This post is a part of a series covering my qualifying exam research areas. Scroll to the bottom of this post for links to each area, or click here for a general description of the process. Description The increasingly “device … Continue reading →

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Exam Area I: New media spaces, or: Alternate Realities, Database Aesthetics, and the Poetics of Space

Posted on Nov 24, 2010 by Jeff Watson

[This post is a part of a series covering my qualifying exam research areas. Scroll to the bottom of this post for links to each area, or click here for a general description of the process.] Description Phenomenologically speaking, our … Continue reading →

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Building a database of research artifacts

Posted on Nov 24, 2010 by Jeff Watson

This post is a part of a series covering my qualifying exam research areas. Scroll to the bottom of this post for links to each area, or click here for a general description of the process. “It is better to … Continue reading →

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Progress Report: Qualifying Examination

Posted on Nov 23, 2010 by Jeff Watson

[TL;DR: it’s been a whole lot of reading. Skip down to Qualifying Exam Areas for a description of exactly what it is that I’m reading about.] In just under three weeks, I write my qualifying examination. Preparing for this ritual … Continue reading →

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ARG readings and reflections: an annotated bibliography

Posted on Feb 22, 2010 by Jeff Watson

This resource contains links to blog posts, conference papers, journal articles, and other texts related to alternate reality gaming. Continue reading →

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The amateur operators: notes on early adopters

Posted on Feb 1, 2010 by Jeff Watson

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. Continue reading →

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Transmedia and Education: Three Essential Readings

Posted on Oct 20, 2009 by Jeff Watson

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. Continue reading →

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Don’t Worry Vivian, the World is Really Real

Posted on Oct 8, 2009 by Jeff Watson

I can’t accept that there are many serious people out there who would argue for a completely disembodied, brain-in-a-vat/brain-in-the-machine cyberfuture. Continue reading →

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