A talk about camouflage framed by the question of “how not to be seen”–in film, on film, as film.
Podcast: Ethan Gilsdorf, “Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks”
Ethan Gilsdorf discussed some of the themes of his new book, Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms, a blend of travelogue, pop culture analysis, and memoir as forty-year-old former D&D addict Gilsdorf crisscrosses America, the world, and other worlds–from Boston to Wisconsin, France to New Zealand, and Planet Earth to the realm of Aggramar.
Video: “J. Michael Straczynski: The Julius Schwartz Lecture”
This year’s Julius Schwartz Lecture speaker was transmedia creator J. Michael Straczynski.
Podcast: Ralph Baer, “Anecdotes from a Lifetime of Electronic Product Creation”
A long lifetime of developing electronic consumer products has taken Ralph Baer from vacuum tube through microprocessor designs.
From the archives, Henry Jenkins on digital culture and violence
Via @henryjenkins comes this video featured in an MIT course “Media, Education and the Marketplace” just after the Columbine shootings.
Podcast: Tucker Eskew, “The Discipline of Political Messages in an Unruly Era”
Political adviser Tucker Eskew explores the permanent campaign of the last ten years. What is “message discipline” in an era of atomized opinion leadership – a necessity or a fool’s errand?
Video: Media in Transition 6: “Summary Perspectives”
At the end of the three-day Media in Transition conference, panelists swap impressions and reactions, offering some notional themes for future symposia.
