http://factorygirl.org/gamesacrossmedia reflections about cross media, participation, and play Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:23:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The paper proposal for "The Participatory Off-screen: Spatial Perception and Suture in Interactive Soap KateModern" has been accepted at the ChART conference "Seeing.. Vision and Perception in Digital Culture", so you will see me there, Birbeck, University of London, November 6-7, here is an overview of the program. The subject of ... http://factorygirl.org/gamesacrossmedia/2008/09/05/paper-presentation-at-chart/ "Loser Generated Content: from Participation to Exploitation" That is the title of a very cool paper by the ITU new entry Soren Mork Petersen (sorry about the spelling). Take a look here. http://factorygirl.org/gamesacrossmedia/2008/09/02/loser-generated-content/ I might be very deluded, but I can't help feeling filled with hope each time one of these alternate reality games about thinking up new ideas to save the world come out. Superstruct is a "massively multiplayer forecasting game", in which you will chronicle the world of 2019, which is actually ... http://factorygirl.org/gamesacrossmedia/2008/09/02/superstruct-call-to-the-best-minds-of-our-planet/ Mobile projection platform in Calgary, to make the city a canvas with your text messages - actually the slogan of TXTual Healing is "Creating public performances with your text messages since '06". http://www.txtualhealing.com/ http://factorygirl.org/gamesacrossmedia/2008/09/02/textual-urban-decor/ Yours truly is going to be in the panel on social media at Mindtrek conference, in the selected company of Frans Mayra and Steffan Bjork, October 9, Tampere, Finland, with the presentation "Facebook Applications and Playful Mood: the Construction of Facebook as a Third Place". The title is similar to some ... http://factorygirl.org/gamesacrossmedia/2008/08/29/i-am-going-to-mindtrek/ A remediation of Félix Fénéon's Novels in Three Lines (1906) by the New York Review of Books novelin3lines Novels in Three Lines By Félix Fénéon Translated and with an introduction by Luc Sante Novels in Three Lines collects more than a thousand items that appeared anonymously in the French newspaper Le Matin in 1906—true stories ... http://factorygirl.org/gamesacrossmedia/2008/08/19/three-lines-adaptation/ Hello, as I might have posted before, earlier on this year I made a number of paper proposals, and some of them, oh yes, have been accepted. (I really need publications, you know, and also a scholarship). Anyway, one sure enough appointment will be at the Brunel Digital Games Postgraduate ... http://factorygirl.org/gamesacrossmedia/2008/08/17/schedule-update-brunel/ Another troubled period of deadlines, so no posts... Jill Walker's book Blogging has been published, and "I" bought it ;-) From the back cover: Jill Walker's Blogging is set to be a key text in its field. Unlike too many other books about blogging, this is no simplistic 'Blogs 101', but ... http://factorygirl.org/gamesacrossmedia/2008/08/17/blogging/ From Argresearch: a new website on ARGs is out there, ready to answer all our questions on what is an ARG, on ARG design, history, and much more. Featuring guest stars Brian Alexander, Christy Dena, and many others. www.argology.com http://factorygirl.org/gamesacrossmedia/2008/08/17/new-arg-website-2/ Now you can say there are very special bloggers around, and some of them even manage to do it 60 years after they passed away. the Orwell Prize set up a blog with Orwell's diaries, posted day by day beginning July 1938. This experiment for me unveils the fictional potential ... http://factorygirl.org/gamesacrossmedia/2008/08/16/even-more-remediation-orwells-diaries/