Lisbeth Klastrup’s dissertation “Towards a Poetics of Virtual Worlds: Multi-User Textuality and the Emergence of Story” was just put online. Get it while you can!
Origami unicorns
Prof. Henry Jenkins is visiting today and will be speaking at 16:15 under the heading Searching for the Origami Unicorn: The Matrix and Transmedia Storytelling.
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A rapid descent
As I write Huygens plunges towards Titan. Latest news is that “Huygens reaches ‘interface altitude’The ‘interface altitude’ is defined as 1270 kilometres above the surface of the moon where entry into Titan’s atmosphere takes place. “
Small pod, powerful forces. Good luck, little saucer.
Size matters
I’m a die-hard Endnote fan but my Great Expectations regarding my dissertation work are rapidly approaching ground level as I realize that the blessings of EN really doesn’t scale to large-size documents. It… really… doesn’t…
Studying player collaboration
In the very near future I’ll begin work on studying the concrete social interaction of real people playing various types of multiplayer games (games with different patterns of collaboration). The project involves both qualitative interviews and structured observation.
There are many possibilites for (ITU) students to collaborate on this project, so if you are one or know one, with interests running in this direction, get in touch.