May 25, 2008 | Digital Media/Internet, Games, Volume 13
Games and Metamateriality Guest Editors: Christian McCrea, Darshana Jayemanne, Tom Apperley Contents 1. Deviant Materials: Reflecting Surfaces and Hollow Bodies in CSI – Zach Whalen 2. Rez: An Evolving Analysis – Douglas Brown 3. Meaningless Play: The...
May 23, 2008 | Digital Media/Internet, Games, Volume 13
Abstract: Mike Skolnik’s Authorship, Environment and Mediation in Role-Playing Games takes up a classificatory and evaluative task regarding analog and digital role-playing environments. Utilising Murray’s procedural authorship and Mackay’s account of mediation in...
May 22, 2008 | Digital Media/Internet, Older Media, Volume 13
Abstract: Laurie Johnson tracks conflicting messages of embodiment and symbolic exchange in the infamous “Mr. Bungle” affair in which a chatroom avatar was forcibly removed from the participant’s control. Arguing that many scholarly treatments recapitulate a binary of...
Mar 8, 2008 | Contents Page Only, Digital Media/Internet, Television, Urban Space, Volume 12
Screenscapes Editor, Leanne Downing 1. An Urban Island: Atlantic Station and its Use of the Screen – Beau B. Beza & Derek Merrill 2. Vegas on the Yarra: Situating Melbourne’s Crown Entertainment Complex – Leanne Downing 3. Public Screens and the...
Mar 6, 2008 | Digital Media/Internet, Film, Television, Urban Space, Volume 12
Abstract: This article maps and investigates the potential for large electronic screens to contribute to the formation of new modes of civic agency in public space. It examines the ‘Public Space Broadcasting’ project in the UK as an alternative to the...
Oct 2, 2005 | Digital Media/Internet
The Internet has made it possible for writers all over the world, to get together in social groups, to discuss all things literary, but how successful can these virtual communities be?Are they really sociable places and do they satisfy the people that take part in...
