Constance forwarded the absolute best, most hilarious bit of “press” (sort of) about our talk at the American Psychological Association in Boston the other day. Here’s an excerpt: The forums present that gamers are “creating an surround in which epistolatory scientific thinking practices are state learned,” said Sean Dancer, a student intellect who worked on [...]

APA went pretty well — I saw a few interesting talks, and saw a bunch of stuff that I found frankly perplexing. I’ve never fully understood this odd mish-mash of clinical practitioners and social scientists, I admit, and it was odd to be at an academic conference which had more opportunities for massage than research [...]

It’s been a busy summer, and I still haven’t fixed up this blog like I’d like to. Regardless, it’s been eventful, so I figure I should share some of it with the Internet. I presented two talks and a poster at the Games+Learning+Society 4.0 conference this summer, and ended up winning one of the poster [...]

Oh, how I love the Internet. If you saw my last post, you know that I recently had a few seconds of Internet fame that has stretched to approximately half a minute of fame by this point. The people behind the Food Network show Ace of Cakes — a show I’ve seen a few times, [...]

Hi everyone! It’s been ages since I’ve posted — I’m basically using Twitter as a daily (sometimes more often than that) blogging thing. I’ll probably get around to fixing up this site one of these days, who knows? But, hey, I just had to post about my 15 seconds of Trekkie nerddom fame. A few [...]

Hey everyone, it’s been a while since I’ve posted — I keep meaning to redo this site so it’s less a blog and more a repository of my current research info, but I’ve been busy. I’ll try to get to that soon, but, hey, that might mean another month or so. Oh well, such is [...]

So, I’ve never really understood why this dumb “Obama Girl” video made the rounds a few months ago, with various media scholars hootin’ and hollerin’ about how it was a fascinating new use of digital media or whatnot. It’s not, really, it’s just a bad song with awkward lyrics and a joke that isn’t all [...]

I’m in New Jersey, doing a talk at AT&T tomorrow and then giving a talk for Constance at CSCL on Wednesday. Right now, my friend Kendra and I are looking at videos of Tay Zonday. He’s clearly one of America’s brightest young talents. To wit: And, a response from MC Steinberg: And, a remix of [...]

Yesterday, while randomly poking around YouTube, I came across an awesome little bit of fandom and media reappropriation: Remixes of Doctor Who “Next Time” trailers. For those of you who don’t know, Doctor Who is the venerable British science fiction institution, in production from 1963 through 1989 and then again since 2005. The latest version [...]