PaleFire
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Faculty |
| Location | Appleton, Wisconsin |
| Introduction | I examine the interaction between media environments, uses of media technologies, and cultural effects of technology in the convergence era. Specifically, I investigate the networks of knowledge that have crystallized around social media, video-sharing sites (YouTube and Revver), online games (in particular, Alternate Reality Games), message boards (Something Awful and 4Chan), and virtual worlds (Second Life). In my field work, I actively sought out instances where communities leveraged their network in the service of transgressive objectives. |
| Interests | New Media, Virtual Worlds, griefers, hacktivism, hackers transmedia storytelling, ARGs, social media... |
| Favorite books | Don Quixote, The Name of the Rose, Tristram Shandy, Pale Fire, Lolita, If on a winter's night a traveller, Lost in the Funhouse, and more... |