General

Documentary storm - a website dedicated to free full-length documentaries gathered from all over the net. The main objective is to spread knowledge, index the thousands of educational videos on the internet and an all around freedom to investigate human ingenuity.

Critical Research Practice

Digital Media and Play

  • Media Practice & Culture 1 - official module blog
  • Pervasive Media Studio (Bristol) - A centre for media involving modern technology but not bound by the constraints of Keyboard, screen and mouse.  This included mobile device applications which use location and bespoke devises that interact with people and/or the environment.
  • Play Research Group - The Play Research Group is a forum for the development of research into the cultural significance of play and games.
  • DCRC (Digital Culture Research Centre) - DCRC aims to enable, support and promote world-leading research into the reconfigurations of contemporary techno-cultures.We study the application, practices and politics of emerging technologies; we critically reflect on their ethics, values and aesthetics; we engage our research with a range of partners to further inform development strategies.
  • Only a Game Blog - Insightful and informative, contains Roger Caillois related stuff such as The Complexity of Ludus, and articles about Agon (competition), Alea (chance), Mimicry (simulation) and Ilinx (vertigo).
  • Seth Giddings's Blog
  • Pervasive Media Work Group (Lester) - This research space will provide an opportunity to explore the technologies and social engagements possible in this new ecology by raising a series of questions around changing concepts of space and place for a wide range of traditional disciplines ranging from Anthropology, Art and Architecture, Computer Studies, Cultural and Media Studies, Fashion to Graphic design.
  • Documentary Videogames PHd - CINDY POREMBA is a digital media researcher, creator and curator, exploring the intersection of documentary, videogames and interactive art through Concordia University’s Doctoral Humanities program (Montréal, QC). She holds an MASc in Interactive Arts from Simon Fraser University, as well as a BA from the University of Waterloo in Rhetoric & Professional Writing.
  • Homo Ludens: A Study of play-element in culture (Johan Huizinga,1935) - “It discusses the importance of the play element of culture and society. Huizinga uses the term "Play Theory" within the book to define the conceptual space in which play occurs. Huizinga suggests that play is primary to and a necessary (though not sufficient) condition of the generation of culture.”

Principles of Practice

  • Center of Digital Storytelling - The Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS) is an international non-profit training, project development, and research organization dedicated to assisting people in using digital media to tell meaningful stories from their lives.

The problem with Story - Tom Abba

Other Stuff