Randy Testa, VP of Education and Professional Development, Walden Media, discusses creating educational content in tandem with commercial family films.
Podcast: Celia Pearce, “Identity-as-Place: Fictive Ethnicities in Online Games & Virtual Worlds”
Celia Pearce, exploring the connection of identity to virtual place and the “Uru Diaspora,” a game community from the defunct MMOG “Uru: Ages Beyond Myst”.
Podcast: Christina Klein, “The Case of Tekkon Kinkreet: Transnational, U.S.-Asian Cinema”
Anime, often considered a uniquely Japanese cinematic form, is no exception. This talk will explore one recent example of transnational anime: Tekkon Kinkreet, the first Japanese anime to be written and directed by Americans.
Podcast: Michael Mateas, “The Authoring Challenge for Interactive Storytelling”
UC-Santa Cruz’s Michael Mateas on automated support for game generation, autonomous character conversations, story management, and tools for interactive storytelling.
Podcast and video: “The Campaign and the Media 2”
The Obama campaign’s extensive deployment of digital media, especially its tech-savvy outreach to the young, was widely reported before the election. Some predicted that this digital advantage would make a decisive difference. Did it?
Podcast: Tak Toyoshima, “Tracking Secret Asian Man”
Tak Toyoshima explores the relationship between his preferred content (the exploration of Asian-American identity), his medium (comics), and his mode of distribution (syndication primarily through independent newspapers).
Podcast: “Comics and Social Conflict” with Ho Che Anderson, Jeet Heer and Diana Tamblyn
Why has historical material become so important for comics art?
