This blog is about the progress of the class that I am teaching Fall 2006. I hope to create a collaborative teaching environment with these blogs.
I think I should start coming up with questions about the assigned reading to post on the discussion forums and come up with paper topics. I still have another month to go but I need to prepare for them some supporting material on the wiki to get them through the theory readings that they will have to do in such a short time.
posted by PaleFire @ 9:31 PM
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I examine the interaction between media environments, uses of media technologies, and cultural effects of technology in the convergence era. Specifically, I investigate the networks of knowledge that have crystallized around social media, video-sharing sites (YouTube and Revver), online games (in particular, Alternate Reality Games), message boards (Something Awful and 4Chan), and virtual worlds (Second Life). In my field work, I actively sought out instances where communities leveraged their network in the service of transgressive objectives.
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