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.
Because I opened this blog account for the class I taught in Fall 2006, I haven't blogged much here. My actual blog is here. Check it out, mainly academic stuff, but sometimes I talk about whatever hits my fancy...
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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.
