We're currently wrapping up here at the C3 conference with a tremendous brainstorming session of our own research priorities as we look toward a second year of research for the Convergence Culture Consortium. Of course, the nature of that aspect of our work remains internal, but our thoughts are greatly influenced by an illuminating series of speakers this afternoon.
Joshua Green, a post-doc at CMS who will be taking over the position of research manager for the consortium in the coming year, looked at how American programming was marketed in his native Australia, particularly what did and did not work and why.
This was followed by a session looking at business opportunities in multiplayer game worlds featuring C3 business manager David Edery, Harvard Business Review's Paul Hemp, C3's Ilya Vedrashko, and Chris Weaver, a visiting professional and professor here at the Comparative Media Studies program and a faculty member with C3.
The nature of convergence culture and the current state of the media industry is in flux right now, and the type of engagement and discourse we have had here on the blog and within C3 is refreshing, considering how little time there is to stop and think about the implications of what is currently happening in the industry and the possibilties for the future.
While in this reflective mode, we would likewise like to see any feedback readers might have regarding our focuses here on this public face of the Convergence Culture Consortium. We are grateful for those of you who engage in our dialogue. Feel free to e-mail us or continue in our public dialogue on these issues as you are. In true "convergence culture" form, we want this site to be a forum of discussion, not just a top-down message from us to you but a true discourse.C
"as we look toward a second year of research for the Convergence Culture Consortium. Of course, the nature of that aspect of our work remains internal ..." You should ask Joshua what PLU means.
"we want this site to be a forum of discussion". Well if that's the case, then you better put together a forum.
Better still, why don't you share one. http://ocwcforum.org/viewtopic.php?t=24
I realize, simonfjs, that there are some difficulties with the blog model being a forum for conversation, since there is still a primary piece and then response to that piece, but I don't think it's quite as easy to say something either "is" a forum or "isn't" one. The fact that we do some research internally doesn't mean that a lot of interesting conversations can't happen externally as well, which is the main point of this blog, and I hope you return here to continue the conversation.