I swear, when this beast is finished and handed in, I’m going to take a week and do nothing but sleep, read comics, watch movies and play video games. Trying to condense two years’ worth of thinking about All Things Transmedia into one solid document is threatening to make my head explode.
Current THESIS score: 22,944 and counting. I may have to jettison the third part of the beast if this keeps up. I’ll know more by the end of the day tomorrow (erm, today) – wish me luck.
In related news, most of our C3 team had lunch today with Christy Dena herself. That was a real treat, although I’m afraid that our group of C3 jackals didn’t let her get a word in edgewise. I wish I had more time to talk to her – we’re definitely on the same page about a lot of this research, and I now recognize her as a kindred spirit more than ever before based on her iconoclastic attitude towards academia alone. Hats off to her – I look forward to the next time we cross paths!
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I'm the Director of the Games and Simulation program at Miami University in Ohio, where I am also an Assistant Professor in the College of Creative Arts' Emerging Technology in Business and Design department. I'm also the director of Miami's Worldbuilding and Narrative Design Research Laboratory (WNDRLab). I have a Master's in Comparative Media Studies from MIT and a PhD in Media Arts and Practices from the University of Southern California.
In past lives I've been the lead Narrative Producer for Microsoft Studios and cofounder of its Narrative Design team, working on projects like Hololens, Quantum Break and new IP incubation; in a "future of media" think tank for Microsoft's CXO/CTO and its Chief Software Architect; the Creative Director for the University of Southern California's World Building Media Lab and the Technical Director, Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab; a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whittier College and director of its Whittier Other Worlds Laboratory (WOWLab); the Communications Director and a researcher for the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab; a founding member of the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT (now The Futures of Entertainment); a magazine editor; and a award-winning short film producer. more »
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