Playable Communications
Fresh off mid-semester vacation, our New Media Research Circle had a mini-poster session today. I threw together mine based on the method I’m using to take my stories from print to digital, pompously titled “From ...
I spent 3 days in London this weekend, and almost all of it can be classed research. Amazing. Friday was spent entirely on the Underground – no joke, I saw sky only when the trains ...
Saying straight lines are bad isn’t going to suit well with Amy, my very OCD friend and colleague. But when it comes to stories told in digital environments, I’m discovering it’s true. Those of us ...
This is the presentation Amy Chambers and I gave at the Transliteracy Conference, complete with annotations for those who weren’t there to hear us rush through the topic in our short allotted time. Visualizing the ...
My plan for yesterday was to spend the entire day immersed in the beta for the Electronic Literature Directory’s new site, and post about it here. Unfortunately, I woke up feeling as though gnomes had ...
Well, it was exhausting and nerve-wracking, but I gave my first presentation amongst actual professionals in my field today. I barely got the presentation done in time – isn’t that always the case – and ...
One of my supervisors is a big champion of the free and open source. To you, I offer my apologies. I tried. I really did. I got to know GIMP well enough to actually use ...
One week. Seven glorious days. The equivalent, for me, of a snow-in. I got s**t done, people. My husband signed up to attend a conference in Erice, Sicily for a week in the end of ...
Finding a Web-builder First, I’m not a giant corporation with tons of cash to spend to hire a web developer to create the all-singing, all-dancing web extravaganza I’d envisioned. I’m a broke PhD student, struggling ...
Features But what kind of website? I could build a simple flash site that takes my readers through my stories click by click, the way Inanimate Alice does. It’s a pretty simple option, really, and ...
