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 […]

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, […]

Sounds fascinating, though I’m very curious to see if Frontline can balance its attention-getting (fear-instilling) trailer by presenting the significant advantages today’s digital natives enjoy thanks to the tubes. Has the potential to be the next “Merchants of Cool,” or show the sinking of another organization (please no - you’re PBS) to the sex-sells philosophy […]

The Holiday Season has begun and I am once again looking forward to my favorite one: New Year’s Eve. I love it not just because it signals all the rest of the stuff is (finally) over, but because of it’s cultural and economic significance. Leave it to me to make it about more than champagne […]