About me...
I recently defended my dissertation on the production of works across media where I analyze the divergent ways the materiality of the medium affect meaning-making and how works generate transmedial narratives that not just incorporate written texts, but also, in some cases, include the production of games. These narratives offer large media conglomerates unprecedented marketing opportunities. Not surprisingly, the cultural, political, and more importantly, economic stakes involved in who controls the authorship and consumption of these stories and the games they generate are significant in terms of determining the social meaning of the works. Accordingly, my study is an inquiry into how such works become sites of struggle because their production is in a state of constant negotiation between their producers/creators, the medium of the work, and the communities mobilized by that work. My research interests are narrative forms in new media, game theory, media theory, media ecology, theory of the hypertext, and 20th century novel.
