by Raizel Liebler Memes in Digital Culture by Limor Shifman is another great addition to the MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series. This book doesn’t dive…
by Kristin Bezio Indie studio Compulsion was one of several at PAXEast 2013, which is where I first saw the gameplay of Contrast. The developer…
by Keidra Chaney The publication of Textual Poachers in 1992 opened the door of acceptance for an academic study of fan communities and transformative works,…
by Laura Fletcher Last week Queens of the Stone Age released a spooky interactive video for its latest single off …Like Clockwork, “The Vampyre of…
by Keidra Chaney The YouTube Music Awards are a great idea. While Spotify and Pandora gets most of the attention (and the scorn) when it…
by Kristin Bezio In the spirit of full disclosure, I have to say that I’m a long-time fan of the Gears of War series. I’ve…
By Vivian Obarski On Aug. 29, Dave Chappelle took the stage in Hartford, Conn. Thirty minutes later he walked off. Depending on who you talk…
Earlier in the summer, Amazon launched Kindle Worlds, a platform for fanfiction writers to publish and make money from their works. It launched to skepticism…
by Kristin Bezio Namely, because I downloaded the free digital copy, so there wasn’t anything TO throw out the window. Let’s see, where do I…
by Keidra Chaney The “Maker” Movement has been gaining a lot of steam in the past couple of years as the logical evolution of the…