Audience Simulation

This summer LSS are joining up with the Jon Bradley from, ‘Immersive Interactive‘ (image above, is one of their interactive classrooms) to have a go at creating a virtual audience experience. The aim is to create a tool for users to gain some experience of ‘working’ with an audience, to try and answer the question; […]

guest speakers in multiplatform production

In the last couple of weeks we’ve been fortunate enough to have two guest speakers to offer their perspectives on the world of multiplatform production. This is a L5 module that examines a range of technologies and scenarios that employ and exploit opportunities for delivery across multiple platforms, including; participatory interaction (social storytelling), transmedia storytelling and/or activism […]

MeCCSA Conference

I recently attended the MeCCSA (Media, Communication, Cultural Studies Association) annual conference, this year held in Newcastle at the University of Northumbria. Many of the themes we discuss on the course were explored in papers ranging from children’s media, to digital culture and democracy, multi platform media to the future of public service broadcasting. Of […]