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 has opened […]
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 participatory […]