Else-If-Then

Category: Research

  • Update…

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    I am way behind on posting because in late summer I started a new job and moved myself and the family to a new city.  The job is interesting, challenging, and pays well, but it is 9-5ish and I am busy the whole time. Not much time for blogging. But, now I have more incentive…

  • When Players become the Story

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    Clan Lord differs from other MMOs in many ways; one of the most basic is longevity.  The game has been running since it was released in 1999 And there are a number of players who have participated since the beginning.  This longevity suggests that there must be some unique features, and there are — but…

  • Designing Cooperation

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    I said I’d have more to say… So here are some ways Clan Lord pretty well forces people to cooperate: The display is looking down from above, rather than heads up, and you can’t “run through” other players and most objects, so coordinating movement during a fight or hunt becomes a priority and requires agreement.…

  • Cyborg and Techno Anxiety

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    I meet a lot of people who are very anxious about and suspicious of technology.  I was going to write a whole post about this, but I recently found a great historical survey of techno anxiety.  Right here. The funny thing is, just as each technology has led to fear over intellectual property issues, they…

  • Also forgot MLA… New Media Divergence: The Problem of a Fragmented Disciplinary Discourse

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    I spoke at MLA last December about what I feel is problem in current academic discourse about new media: The impact of new media on our society, and on the humanities in particular, has been widely recognized and researched, yet many faculty in the humanities seem to resist considering formal qualities of new media texts…

  • Slides from CCCC 2009

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    I just noticed that I never posted the slides from my talk at the 2009 Conference on College Composition and Communication.  So here is a pdf version of the slides. Here is the abstract: Since the earliest MUDs, MOOs and networked composition classrooms of the 1990s, composition teachers and scholars have been thinking, speaking, and…

  • Arse Elektronika 2009

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    I gave a talk this year, along with my co-panelist Pepper Mint. It went very well and was I think pretty informative for the audience, though of course some said, oh, we all know this already.  –It was about how technology and the internet have been intertwined with the emergence of a polyamorous community, which…

  • Ethereal Archives: The Evolution of Information Structures from Social Networks and Their Impact on Collective and Personal Identity

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    How do collective archives emerge from the individual digital memories of participants in social networks, facilitated by social software? Networks in northern California are studied and described as “ethereal archives” because they are widely distributed, linked through blogs, microblogs, and other locations in which content is always changing. Digital technology allows preservation of memories, and…

  • Redesign Coming Soon

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    Ok, I have now mastered just enough knowledge of the WP templates to be disatisfied with how this blog is working.  Sometime very soon I’ll be doing a major redesign, as well as expanding the content, though the latter will probably wait until summer. My other projects have slowed down because funding at my school…

  • Users Recognizing Heterogenous Participation and Leveraging Their Own Free Labor

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    Here is a paper I’m in the process of sending out to journals, but who knows how long that will take, so enjoy! Users Recognizing Heterogenous Participation and Leveraging Their Own Free Labor Publish at Scribd or explore others: Academic Work Technology-Web-20 sequential tart