Moving Through The Narrative: Spatial Form Theory And The Space Of Electronic Literature – Lai-Tze Fan

Dec 29, 2012 | Digital Media/Internet, Older Media, Volume 21

The way that a narrative unravels has traditionally been understood to occur over time: the time that it takes to read words on a page and to process meaning, and the time frame of events as depicted in the narrative. As we increasingly encounter electronic...

Cartographic City: mobile mapping as a contemporary urban practice – Clancy Wilmott

Dec 28, 2012 | Digital Media/Internet, Urban Space, Volume 21

Abstract: As the contemporary city becomes a site of complex negotiations between technology and people, the ubiquity of digital maps is disrupting traditional spatial paradigms. Here, the texts of the urban imagination are becoming increasingly geo-coded, changing...

I See You: the posthuman subject and spaces of virtuality – Rebecca Bishop

Dec 28, 2012 | Digital Media/Internet, Film, Volume 21

Everything is backwards now, like out there is the real world and this is the dream. (James Cameron’s Avatar, 2009) Over recent years, considerable scholarly attention and mass media speculation has been paid to the emergence of the figure of the posthuman – a vision...

Reaching for the Screen in Nine Inch Nails’ ‘Lights in the Sky’ – Katheryn Wright

Dec 28, 2012 | Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Film, Games, Music, Sound, Volume 21

Abstract: During the Nine Inch Nails’ Lights in the Sky tour in 2008, Trent Reznor made use of two semi-transparent stealth screens layered in front of a third screen through which the band performed the second and third acts of the show. A stealth screen is made from...

The Single Female Intruder – David Surman

Nov 7, 2012 | Animation, Comics, Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Film, Games, Older Media, Television, Volume 20

Abstract: This essay examines a contemporary cultural icon that operates across distinct media boundaries, as a kind of transmedia archetype. Of interest is the visuality of what I call the ‘single female intruder’, which emerges as the intersection of a variety of...

Blockbusters for the YouTube Generation: A new product of convergence culture – Kristy Hess and Lisa Waller

Aug 1, 2011 | Digital Media/Internet, fan culture, Music, Television, Volume 19

Abstract: While scholars have paid much attention to YouTube in a Web 2.0 environment, the YouTube blockbuster is yet to be discussed as part of this convergence culture. It differs from transmedia storytelling in that no single company owns or controls the characters...