Reflections on Cultural Politics: My Interview for Poli (Part One)
Earlier this fall, the French cultural theory magazine, Poli, ran an extensive interview with me conducted by Maxime Cervulle. The interview explored a range of topics surrounding the cultural politics...
View ArticleReflections on Cultural Politics: My Interview for Poli (Part Two)
Today, I am running the second part of the English language translation of an interview I did last year with Maxime Cervulle for Poli, a French magazine of media and cultural theory. Last time, the...
View ArticleStrange Overtures: Vodephone, Tchaikovsky, Ernie Kovacs and the “Wowness” of...
One of the great joys of our present moment is waking up to some delightful gift — a compelling bit of media content — sent to you by friends, family, or in this case, a former student (Eric Schmiedl)....
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Click Click Ranger: A Transmedia Experiment for Korean Television (Part One)
I am offering today’s post as part of the ongoing conversation I’ve been having throughout the semester about transmedia storytelling practices. Below you will find the first of two installments...
View ArticleThe Revenge of the Origami Unicorn: Seven Principles of Transmedia...
Across the next two weeks, we will be rolling out the webcast versions of the sessions we hosted during the recent Futures of Entertainment 4 conference held last month at MIT. (see Monday’s post for...
View ArticleSites of Convergence: An Interview for Brazillian Academics
Vinicius Navarro has published an extensive interview with me in the current issue of Contracampo, a journal from Universidade Federal Fluminense (Brazil). Navarro and his editors have graciously...
View ArticleSites of Convergence: An Interview for Brazillian Academics (Part Two)
Participation in a culture of convergence requires the development of certain cognitive capacities. Multitasking, for example, is a skill that young people, the digital “natives,” seem more...
View ArticleC Is For Convergence: How the Cookie Monster Reformed Canadian Health Care
A few weeks ago, Glenn Kubish, an Alberta-based reader of this blog, wrote to me to share a remarkable story about the power of grassroots media and participatory culture. Like a typical U.S. yokel, I...
View ArticleOne Book, One School, Or This is Henry’s Brain at Annenberg
When I left MIT three years ago, after having spent the whole of my professional career at one institution, I left with a sense that what I had produced so far represented who Henry was at MIT. I had...
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A Whale Of A Tale!: Ricardo Pitts-Wiley Brings Mixed Magic to LA
Last February, I announced here the release of Reading in a Participatory Culture, a print book, and Flows of Reading, a d-book extension, both focused around work my teams (first at MIT and then at...
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