I wonder if "America's Army", the game designed to boost recruitment to the US military, and (according to Henry Jenkins in Convergence Culture) aiming to become a cross-platform franchise, is at all comparable. ...
That is, I wonder Destro, who's got a plan and is an evil man, the terrifying enemy of G I Joe, is just a fantastical (super)villain rather than having any kind of political connotations, and whether G I Joe represents any form of propaganda for the ...
The Dick Tracy watch prompts a number of diverse thoughts-- the way 1960s real-world technology is clumsily emulating the fantasy tech of the comic book 1930s (Dick Tracy didn't need a bulky radio on his belt-- the transmitter was in the watch itself ...
My piece above is actually a "mobisode" trailing my chapter in Roberta's book. It features analysis of scenes not mentioned in that chapter, and entirely new sentences. I hope it fills in the gaps between any previous work of mine you might ...
>We should embrace “transmedia scholarship”: placing easter eggs for careful readers, create online puzzles to figure out what the devil we’re talking about, market paratextual extensions tying into our scholarship, etc.. I think we do that to an exten ...
Stacey and Kim raise the interesting point that here (and in my book chapter) I'm basing my study of "fans" do on what *I* do. Of course, I offer evidence that a lot of fans do the same as me in terms of watching in the context of internet ...
As a side-note, I'm genuinely surprised (perhaps I shouldn't be) that of the four clips so far, only mine is from Lost itself. I guess this suggests the way that "Lost" is scattered across various texts (and we're only including f ...
As an academic, I'm well used to videos where fans cleverly select from the official text to support their own reading. But watching this, I found myself responding with mild outrage (even while I admired the execution) and mockery... as a Sawyer fan ...
I think of ABC's "Lost" as cross-promotion for my forthcoming chapter "Television Out of Time", in Roberta Pearson's "Reading Lost" (I.B. Tauris, forthcoming 2008). ...
So, the idea of a (mild) moral panic, or a form of light controversy, creates a "story" that's basically a revisionist history along the lines of "Disney has inspired little girls to play princesses (TM)", and a convenient reminde ...
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I wonder if "America's
That is, I wonder Destro,
The Dick Tracy watch prompts
My piece above is actually a
>We should embrace
Stacey and Kim raise the
As a side-note, I'm
As an academic, I'm well
I think of ABC's "Lost" as
So, the idea of a (mild)
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