I HAVE to post about this : a Christmas tree Pacman-style and Pokemon decorations (from Geekologie) - we want more!

Yours truly gave a talk today about “Cross Media between Games and Storytelling”, slides available at the Mediamatic website, here - note: it is very interesting how the fact that I don’t belong to a specific institution makes it extremely difficult, bordering to the embarrassing, for people to introduce me. I really wish the situation will change soon, or that while keeping on at some point I will earn the difficult title of “independent scholar” (Mary Laure Ryan is one, but, well, she was at MTI first, AND she is Mary Laure Ryan.. oh well…)

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Still at the Cross Media Week, interesting talk today to about social networks and open ID. While waiting for the ideal open ID to use everywhere without worrying about your personal data being stolen by terrorists etc., they were proposing to connect all social networks, so that it would be possible to : federate - have a friend on another network follow my content like it was on his;
synch - make the content visible in the same way from platform to platform;
move - move from one platform to the other very easily;
after this, the talk became too technical for me and I stopped understanding.
What I got, is that : social networks, like cross media, are fighting too to find common standards for more fluid communication. Technical convergence, personalization, and transferability are the main issues. The idea of an open ID, or digital identity, was fascinating, as was the concept of “shared secret”, that reminded me of secret societies where hundreds of thousands could mix with the crowd and still be connected although not personally acquainted (I think free masons and similar), an uncanny thought when related to Facebook, MySpace and Twitter.
By the way, here you can see Twitter co-founder Biz Stone (who looks exactly like my friend Alvise, ciao Alvise )

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Here you can find the slides of my humble contribution to the Transmedia and Games workshop, entitled ” Some Ideas for the Evaluation of Cross Media Interaction ” , for a better definition of experience and gameplay. I wish I could give much more time and thought to the topic, because I think it really pivotal in understanding new communication models like cross media, I wish there were more working on it.

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My first post, I guess a bit of introduction is due.
I am a creative individual who got a serious crush for interactive narrative some years ago and another crush, just as serious, for cross media communication around 2004.
My background in films and anthropology (and a bit of new media too) unfortunately didn’t allow me to plunge into these for me new topics immediately, so, after abandoning my old fashioned PhD studies in Anthropology of Communications, I had to take some time to “upgrade”.

Through a lot of effort, heavy conference attendance, internet networking and many many readings (ah, those Amazon bills..) I managed to to feel somehow at ease with a topic that in any case until a couple of years ago didn’t feature in university courses.

Waiting to find an enlightened institution to sponsor my studies, I will post here the advancement of my solitary research, hoping that way it will be less solitary.

Here you are not going to find the huge wealth of information you will find on Christy Dena’s blog - you will find some reflections, the books I read, my publications when they occur and some reports of the conferences about cross media here in Europe, where I am based.

You shouldn’t expect a post every day either, except maybe during conference days.
This is my declaration of intents all right. Let’s see where this adventure will lead, if anywhere

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