ENGL 680M: New Media

Information about a special edition of _Technical
Communication_ that will focus on virtual worlds. Full CFP below the break.

One of my academic faves, and yours too, Henry Jenkins, the "Marshall McLuhan of Web 2.0"

Not sure the title is all that apt, but anyways. Here's a great podcast interview with Jenkins from the Chronicle of Higher Education. He's got a most excellent blog too that's worth checking on a semi-daily basis.

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2377

http://henryjenkins.org/

When I grow up, I wanna be Henry Jenkins. Beard and all.

So much remediation!

This movie looks really interesting in terms of our class discussion today. Across the universe is a new rock musical entirely in Beatles songs. It could be brilliant, and it could be horrible, but I'm curious to find out...

NPR Review
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14429238

Official Website
http://www.acrosstheuniverse.com/

This Onion article is hysterical and relates to what we've been talking about. Read it and chuckle.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/38850

Here is a tutorial hub for many new media programs:

http://www.w3schools.com/

MIT courseware:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

http://www.amazon.com/Feed-M-T-Anderson/dp/0763622591/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/10...

You can check out different scenes from South Park where Cesar is called in to help Cartman's mom control him.

http://www.southparkstudios.com/show/display_episode.php?season=10&id1=1...

the desire for video games to be more like reality is disappearing with this generation. where the generation that saw the introduction of video games into culture wants video games to emulate pre-existing reality, the generation that was born into near-photorealistic videogames doesn't particularly care - for my generation, video games are part of reality, and what we want made better is the game itself.

Remediated Mess!!!

Ok, just right to the question without where the idea came from:

WHO are are Bolter & Grusin speaking about when we they speak of the "re/hypermediated self? Culture at Large (who's that exactly)? Those who have access to the view themselves as mediated? Those who have the power to create the format that remediates? Those who have NO power to either see themselves mediated OR to create in the media that mediates?