It’s a title possibility for my thesis. Maybe I’ll change my mind. If I do I’ll simply come back and delete the entry altogether. How very 1984.
Thankfully the title, according to the Emerson College Department Handbook for the Master of Arts in Media Arts Program, 2004-2005 (my official catalog year), is open for redevelopment during [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Sep 17
She Works Hard for the Whuffie: Free Labor in the Age of Peer Production
Sep 08
Particitainment. Not a Typo.
The most powerful hybrid of communications and entertainment is “particitainment”—entertaining communications that connects us with some larger purpose or enterprise. - Futurist Paul Saffo, Consumers and Interactive New Media: A Hierarchy of Desires, 1993
I like this term “particitainment.” I can already hear my peers groaning at the introduction of another term to describe participatory culture, [...]
