Machinima is a blasphemy of sorts between gaming and film, but in a cheaper and almost always comical fashion. This is a form of production that uses real-time graphics engines like those used in video games. This form can allow gamers with no previous theatrical or cinematic training to produce cheap videos from an already [...]
Transmedia on Digital Platforms
Transmedia, as best described by Henry Jenkins Transmedia storytelling represents a process where integral elements of a fiction get dispersed systematically across multiple delivery channels for the purpose of creating a unified and coordinated entertainment experience. Ideally, each medium makes it own unique contribution to the unfolding of the story. Classical media has evolved to [...]
Onling Social Media using Crowdsourcing
Jeff Howe first coined the term ‘crowdsourcing’ in an issue of Wired in June of 2006 as the act of taking a job tradionaly performed by an employee and outsourcing (or providing an open call) to an large undefined community. There is an ever growing variety of platforms that crowdsourcing can be applied or adapted [...]
BIOSHOCK~~ Disturbingly Beautifully… if you like dead things
My take of Bioshock with a few extra vids
Digital Tragedy of the Commons
Garret Hardin describes “Tragedy of the Commons” as a situation where individuals acting in their own self-interest destroy or damage a common resource shared by other individuals, but not with the intended outcome. The most common example is a group of shepherds with a common resource of a field that they [...]
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