We have posted a ‘white paper’, a discussion piece concerning the Theory & Practice of History Simulation, over on the ‘Theory & Practice‘ page. We’d appreciate any discussion or comments you might have!
Shawn’s presentation at Brock’s Immersive Worlds conference, held in June 2007, may be listened to here: The Virtual Archaeologist: Of Past Lives and Second Lives Abstract: Archaeology is about material culture, about exploring the human condition (not necessarily in the past) through how we create and manipulate objects. In recent years, the power of computers [...]
Henry Jenkins, interviewed for the Chronicle of Higher Education: Henry Jenkins, co-director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was one of the first scholars to study Trekkies and other fans of popular media. For decades, he argues, those fans have been on the cutting edge of the trend of [...]