Category: Internet Studies
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Avatars, Audiences and Interactive Television
This presentation was given at the 100th National Communication Association Conference in Chicago on November 21, 2014. This presentation reflects the work I have done with Pooky Amsterdam to understand the nature and potential of virtual world television as reported in the Journal of Virtual World Research. This presentation was awarded one of the Top…
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On Online Education and Catholic Social Teaching
Earlier this fall, I attended the annual EDUCAUSE convention in Orlando, Florida. I have written about my experience at the convention as it relates to my ongoing project investigating the relationship between online learning communities and Catholic social teaching as an approach to designing higher education. As part of my attendance at the convention, I…
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An Autoethnography of Collegium – Day Three
Day 3: Monday, June 23rd The reason I came to Collegium is for a specific purpose, one that could potentially help my university. So it is interesting that what I have gotten out of it so far has been more relevant to a research project that has been in the back of my mind for…
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Mobile Media Technologies at the Intersection of the Virtual and the Real
The blending of the physical and the virtual is increasing due to mobile computing technologies. Is our cybernetic future at hand? Christopher Olson uses digital tattoos to discuss the blending of realities, and the construction of reality in his latest article: Mobile Media Technologies at the Intersection of the Virtual and the Real.
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What Women Don’t Want — LadyBits on Medium
What Women Don’t Want — LadyBits on Medium — Medium. So here we have another wonderful breakdown of a breakdown in the progress of bringing women across gendered lines. This summer — and maybe even this year thus far — has been one in which we really start to address the realities of what has…
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Virtual World Television as Interactive Television
This presentation was recently given at the 2013 Popular Culture Association conference in Washington, D.C. The presentation focuses on an analysis of our Virtual World Television project, which will be ramping up as the year continues. You can find the PowerPoint, with notes, at this blog post. And stay tuned to this blog and that…
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Corporations Ploy to Educate Online Pirates
I wrote this week’s Dr. Geek piece for Clearance Bin Review on the recent implementation by the big five ISPs in the United States — AT&T, Comcast, Verizon, Cablevision and Time Warner — of a new “educational program” designed as a warning and punishment system to stop people from engaging in peer-to-peer filesharing of copyrighted…
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