Month: October 2013
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A Real Virtual Haunted House
If you have the time and the wherewithal to go into the virtual world Second Life for Halloween, then I have the place for you: the Haunted House in Halloween Town. Now, I cannot take credit for finding this place. Last week I took my digital communication technology students into the social virtual world for one of…
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A World of Superheroes
As a lead up to a panel I will be on about superheroes and religion, I am reprinting here a series originally created for Clearance Bin Review. This series focuses on one of the current driving forces in American pop culture: superheroes. In the previous article, I focused on working out just what exactly is a…
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Producers’ Retrospective: Flufee On A Meshion
How does a digital creation experience life as the star of virtual world television and machinima? Well, here is Flufee, star of the series Flufee on a Meshion, as well as numerous other machinima encounters produced in Second Life. He (she? does it matter?) is all to happy to tell you about his/her life as a digital…
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From Hell to the Cineplex
From Hell to the Cineplex: Adaptation of a graphic novel on narrative and sensual levels While it has been Hollywood history to base movies on novels, many movies today are being made by adapting texts that have a pre-existing fanbase, such as comic books, novels, video games, television shows, etc. While ostensibly one reason for these…
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What is a Superhero, Anyway?
On November 6th, I will be part of a panel on superheroes, morality and the modern world at Dominican University. As a lead up to that event, I thought I rerun a series of articles that first appeared on Clearance Bin Review and that would delve into a topic that is at the heart of…
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