The Network Culture Project with Draxtor Despres created a three-part machinima series in Second Life on the theme of Virtual World and Public Good.
Highlighted in these videos are the finalists from the Community Challenge.
Virtual World and Public Good Machinima 1
Virtual World and Public Good Machinima 2
Virtual World and Public Good Machinima 3
Doug Thomas explains a recent project, Modern Prometheus, as it explores the ways in which children learn using digital media.
Speaker: Costanza-Chock is a Graduate Student Fellow,researcher and media activist who works on the political economy of communication,international media policy, tactical media production and the transnational movement for communication rights.
Speaker: de Vries was formerly the Chief of Incubation, Senior Director of Advanced Technology and Policy at Microsoft Corporation, and is a Senior Fellow at Annenberg Center.
Speaker: Professor Wilkie, a Senior Fellow, is the Executive Director of the Center for Communication Law and Policy. His research focuses on game theory, its application to regulation and policy design, and the economics of the communications industries.
Speaker: Joanna Demers, a Senior Fellow, specializes in post-1945 popular and concert music. She is an Assistant Professor of Musicology in the USC Thornton School of Music.
Speaker: Jonathan Taplin's areas of specialization are in International Communication Management and the field of digital media entertainment. He is an Adjunct Professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication.
Speaker: Tracy Fullerton, M.F.A., is a game designer, educator and writer with fifteen years of professional experience. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Interactive Media Division of the USC School of Cinematic Arts where she serves as Co-Director of the Electronic Arts Game Innovation Lab.
Speaker: Anne Balsamo, a Senior Fellow, serves as the Director of Academic Programs at USC's Institute for Multimedia Literacy. She is also a Professor of Interactive Media and Gender Studies at USC.
Speaker: Simon Wilkie is a senior fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Communication and executive director of USC's interdisciplinary Center for Communication Law and Policy. His research focuses on game theory, its application to regulation and policy design, and the economics of the communications industries.
Speaker: Henry Jenkins is the founder and director of the Comparative Media Studies Program and the DeFlorz Professor of the Humanities at MIT, and is the author or editor of eleven books.
Speaker: Robert Winter, a Local Fellow, has been a member of the UCLA music faculty since 1974. He is currently University Professor of Music. In addition to his teaching, he currently divides his time equally between live appearances and new media creation.
Speaker: Abelson, a Nonresident Fellow, is president of his own consulting company, Sudbury International, based in Washington, D.C. and Vermont. Previously he was Chief of the International Bureau at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Speaker: Scott Mahoy has over 10 years experience in the media arts including web design, motion graphics, animation and film/video production and post-production. He is currently the creative director of the Russian Modernism distant learning course being developed by the Labyrinth Project.
Speaker: Professor Jay T. Harris, an ACC Senior Fellow, holds the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Journalism and Democracy at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication, and the former Editor and Publisher of The San Jose Mercury News. He is also the founder and director of the Center for the Study of Journalism and Democracy at the Annenberg School.
Speaker: Katynka Z. Martínez's areas of specialization include media studies, Latino cultural studies, feminist theory, and post-colonial studies of race and ethnicity. She is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the ACC.
Speaker: Bruce Zuckerman, a Local ACC Fellow, studies the ancient Near East, Northwest Semitic languages and literatures, and the archaeology of the Near East and the Greco-Roman world. He is an expert in reproducing ancient biblical and Near Eastern documents, including the Dead Sea Scrolls, and is the Director of the West Semitic Research Project (WSRP).
Abstract: (Bar) In recent years, mobile phone penetration has increased dramatically throughout Latin America. But rising penetration numbers only tell part of the story. To fully grasp the social, economic and political impact of mobile telephony, we need to understand appropriation: the process through which mobile phone users go beyond mere adoption to make the technology their own and to embed it within their social, economic, and political practices.
Speaker: Francesco Sobbrio's expertise is in applied microeconomics and political economy. Sobbrio is a Graduate Fellow.
Speaker: Viviane Serfaty is a Visiting scholar at the USC Annenberg Center.
Speaker: Thomas, a Local Fellow, is an Associate Professor of Communications at the Annenberg School for Communication. Thomas is currently working on the Redistricting Game.
Speaker: Mimi Ito is a cultural anthropologist who studies new media use, particularly among young people in Japan and the US. She is a Senior Fellow at the Annenberg Center for Communication.
Speaker: Jan Chipchase is a researcher for the Nokia Mobile HCI Group and he has worked from Tokyo, his home for the last 5 years.
Speaker: Postdoctoral Fellow Brad Pasanek is a scholar of eighteenth-century British literature. His approach to that literature is both digital and quantitative but also situated in the longer tradition of philology and intellectual history.
Speaker: Professor Jonathan Aronson, the ACC Executive Director, is a well-known expert on the nexus of international relations and communications. Aronson holds dual faculty appointments in the Annenberg School for Communication and the School of International Relations at USC. He is currently chair of the Henry Salvatori Forum and co-founder of the Annenberg Research Network on International Communications, both at USC.
Speaker: François Bar, a Senior Fellow, focuses his current research interests on comparative telecommunication policy, as well as economic, strategic and social dimensions of computer networking, new media and the Internet.
Speaker: Bob Stein, a Senior Fellow, is currently working on SOPHIE-- a new software program that will allow artists, scholars, writers and others create digital documents incorporating audio and visual elements, along with text. Upon completion in 2006, SOPHIE will be distributed on an open-source basis via the Institute for the Future of the Book.
Speaker: Postdoctoral Fellow Corinna di Gennaro is a sociologist, who has been working extensively on social capital theory and political participation.
Speaker: Currah is broadly interested in the economic and geographical relationships between technological innovation, competition and industry structure -- that is, how products, firms, regions and industries are created, destroyed and reconfigured over time. He is a University Lecturer and Career Development Research Fellow at the Univeristy of Oxford.
Speaker: Guo Liang is an authority on internet dynamics in China and a Senior Fellow at the ACC. He is the deputy director at the Centre for Social Development, CASS, and an Associate Professor of the Institute of Philosophy, CASS.
Speaker: Justin Hall is a Graduate Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center and a graduate student in the USC Interactive Media Division where he explores alternatives to text publishing online. He is currently developing surveillance-based gameplay online and on mobile phones called "Passively Multiplayer Online Gaming.”
Speaker: Dr. Antonio Damasio's research is directed at the neural basis of cognition and behavior at a large-scale systems level. He is an ACC Local Fellow.
Speaker: Manuel Castells, a Local Fellow, is a Professor of Communication and the holder of the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the Annenberg School. He is a Research Professor at the Open University of Catalonia in Barcelona, and Professor Emeritus of Sociology and of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley.
Speaker: Jennifer Urban is a Local Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center and a Clinical Associate Professor of Law at USC. She is also the Director of the USC Intellectual Property Clinic and a faculty member of the USC Center for Communication Law and Policy.
Speaker: Collins is a Professor of Media Studies at the Open University, UK and a Senior Fellow at the ACC. Collins' research interests include media policy and regulation, public service broadcasting, new communication technologies, and national identity and the media.