Personality Types of Internet Celebrities
A quick examination of the first of the three aspects that define Internet celebrities
A Narrative of My Professional Service
This post is the third in a series for my tenure file. The focus of this post is about the value of my professional service to the larger academic community.
SxSW 2019
The Psychology of Zelda has allowed me to travel throughout the United States to promote the book. This type of travel would typically be limited to going to Barnes and Noble throughout Ohio to sign copies of the book. I have been fortunate enough however to go to conferences to present the research associated with …
Jenkins’ Five Levels of Fandom Activity
Henry Jenkins (1992) wrote about in his foundational work “Textual Poachers: Television Fan & Participatory Culture” about five levels of activity that fandoms traditional engage in when interacting with core texts essential to their favorite shows, books, movies, or other artifacts of popular culture. Fans of their content will begin their fandom with the reception …
A Portrait of Comic Conventions from the Casual Observer
The first time an outsider enters the realm of a comic convention, they walk through a “garden of earthly delights” that encompasses many of the touchstones of popular and geek culture. Cosplayers, those individuals that celebrate characters from mass media by adopting the dress, behaviors, and communication patterns of their favorite personas, bring the worlds …
The Psychology of the Legend of Zelda
A preview of my conference schedule for the next couple of months as it relates to game studies.
Oliver, Bee, Minhaj, and Nolan
It’s been more than three years since Jon Stewart left the Daily Show and placed the hosting responsibilities in the capable hands of Trevor Noah. The show has changed from an editorializing platform that used comedy as the medium of discourse to a show that satirizes current events to create a shared social experience via …
The Appalachian Evolution
The following was my panel pitch for the 2018 SxSW Conference for the Intelligent Future track With the recent focus on the region (thanks to books like “Hillbilly Elegy,” “White Trash,” and others), it is important for interactive professionals and organizations to start looking at Appalachia as an avenue of potential expansion. This discussion will …
Theorizing the Web 2016
One of the reasons I tend to return to the Theorizing the Web conference is that it represents this cool hybrid between an academic conference, a performative space, a professional development hangout, & a grad/undergrad research workshop. It has the trappings of the traditional conference with semi-structured panels and experts in various areas discussing the observations to …
The College Media Hub
The following was my panel pitch for the 2016 SxSWEDU Conference Ohio Northern University (ONU) created a new program “Multimedia Journalism” as a response to the change the media economy. Part of this change meant folding the local campus newspaper (Northern Review) into the rest of the media at ONU and publishing a digital edition, instead …