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The Importance of Kludge

May 6, 2013

The latest scholarly musing on Virtual World Television considers the importance of the constraints of Second Life in fostering creativity. Find out …

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Virtual World Television as Interactive Television

April 1, 2013

This presentation was recently given at the 2013 Popular Culture Association conference in Washington, D.C.  The presentation focuses on an …

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Virtual World Television: The Blog

December 15, 2012

As I’ve discussed elsewhere on this blog (such as here and here), I’ve undertaken a new project with producer Pooky …

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Analyzing Obama’s 2012 Victory Speech

November 15, 2012

In the early hours of November 7th, 2012, Barack Obama took the stage at the McCormick Center in Chicago to …

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Virtual World Television: Case studies in the emergence of user-generated participatory television

August 31, 2012

This post comes from our presentation at Web Science 2012 this past June in Evanston, Il.  We are in the …

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Making Sense of Entertainment in Virtual Worlds

May 25, 2012

In September of 2008, with the ink on my doctorate barely dry, I jumped a plane and landed in Denmark. …

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Virtual Worlds Television and Metanomics: Innovating or Remediating?

May 13, 2012

I’ve been using this blog to deconstruct research I’ve done that are interesting vignettes of findings, but perhaps in need …

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Haunted Houses as Physicalized Virtual Reality?

October 9, 2011

It’s October.  Sure, here in Chicagoland it’s been 80 degrees for the past couple days, but the leaves are falling, …

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Two Men and a Second Life

August 5, 2011

As I’ve mentioned elsewhere on this blog, I spent two years working on a post-doc research fellowship for the Virtual …

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