Category: thoughts
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#libspill – a visual analysis of political hashtag use
The following is a visual analysis of the use of the political hashtag #libspill in the hours prior, during and after the leadership vote, which retained Australia’s 28th Prime Minister as the leader of the Liberal party. For those readers, like myself, who maintain only a general interest in Australian politics and do not participate…
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persona studies
In preparation for the upcoming book on Persona Studies, and the M/C journal ‘persona’ edition I thought I would just share a couple of blog posts that all use the term ‘persona’ to talk about very different issues and concepts. Persona 5 – a very popular Japanese game Persona – the television show Persona and Greek Theatre…
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“…interaction design is the highest form of creative expression…”
Checkout this wonderful TED talk by Museum of Modern Art senior curator of architecture and design, Paola Antonelli. Antonelli complicates the ‘video games are not art’ debate with a new collection of 14 video games at MoMA that celebrate ‘interaction design’ as the “highest form of creative expression”. The appeal of the collection, according to…
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was it really only 30 days?
It’s finally over, and what an epic month it has been, while the crowd funding campaign didn’t make the target to fund the Values of Play survey or PlayCache project, the Deakin and Pozible crowdfunding experiment has been a tremendous success. I’ll explain why, but first, a very big thank you to all who pledged, messaged…
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E-sports and gamer persona
At one point StarCraft 2 player ‘Idra’ held one of the most lucrative sponsorship contracts in E-sports and a notoriety for trash talking and disdain for other players. His dismissal from the competitive SC2 team ‘Evil Geniuses’ sends an important message to high profile players about attention to their public persona, acceptable competitive behaviour and…
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Serres, time travel and the Gothic in science fiction
Three new postgraduate students to co-supervise this year. The first I’ve caught up with so far is a Creative Arts students writing a science fiction novel. The exegesis for the thesis will focus on the Gothic in science fiction and to kick the process off, we will be working on an analysis of the Gothic…
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mashup monday
a little mashup to round out monday evening and I’m a good mood after a productive day of teaching so I give to you the greatest mashup song, ever
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seeing through Glass
It would take a lot for me to shift from my iPad mini to an Android tablet but Google Glass would do it. I’m scaling up the use of G+ in my teaching this year after a successful trial of the Hangout feature and live online tutorials via my laptop in the tutorial rooms in 2012. I’ve…
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