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Hybrid stories: examining the future of transmedia narrative (2009)
Journal Article
Abba, T. (2009). Hybrid stories: examining the future of transmedia narrative. Science Fiction Film and Television, 2(1), 59-75. https://doi.org/10.1353/sff.0.0026

Among recent examples of long-form sf drama, there is a tendency to extend the broadcast story across mulitple narrative platforms. The web, mobile telephony and print media are recombined with established broadcast platforms to produce a form of sto... Read More about Hybrid stories: examining the future of transmedia narrative.

Technologies between games and culture (2009)
Journal Article
Kennedy, H., & Crogan, P. (2009). Technologies between games and culture. Games and Culture, 4(2), 107-114. https://doi.org/10.1177/1555412008325482

This article introduces and situates the ensuing collection of four essays on the theme of games and technology. It argues the need for videogame studies to develop a more rigorous and focused perspective on the theorization of technology as it relat... Read More about Technologies between games and culture.

Events and collusions: A glossary for the microethnography of video game play (2009)
Journal Article
Giddings, S. (2009). Events and collusions: A glossary for the microethnography of video game play. Games and Culture, 4(2), 144-157. https://doi.org/10.1177/1555412008325485

This essay draws on a number of recent research projects that record and analyze video game play. The "microethnographic" approach that they develop suggests methodological strategies, both for analyzing gameplay and for identifying and conceptualizi... Read More about Events and collusions: A glossary for the microethnography of video game play.

The duck and the philosopher: Rhythms of editing and thinking between Bernard Stiegler and The Ister (2009)
Journal Article
Crogan, P. (2009). The duck and the philosopher: Rhythms of editing and thinking between Bernard Stiegler and The Ister. Transformations,

The Ister (Ross and Barison, 2003)—part documentary, travelogue and philosophical meditation supplementing Heidegger’s meditation on Holderlin’s poem about the Danube—opens and closes with sequences of a duck waddling along the bank of the river. The... Read More about The duck and the philosopher: Rhythms of editing and thinking between Bernard Stiegler and The Ister.

Straw men or cyborgs? (2009)
Journal Article
Dovey, J., & Lister, M. (2009). Straw men or cyborgs?. Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture, 1(1), 129-145. https://doi.org/10.1386/iscc.1.1.129_1

This paper responds to calls in the last two years for a Media Studies 2.0 that would reformulate the discipline to take account of the radical changes in Media practices brought about by digital technologies and their cultures. Whilst agreeing on th... Read More about Straw men or cyborgs?.