Alternate Reality Games SIG/Whitepaper/Appendix 1: Academic Citations

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These are the publications mentioned in the overviews of the academics. They are listed here in alphabetical order (by surname).

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[edit] Bryan Alexander

[edit] Academic

  • Alexander, B. (2005a) 'Alternate Reality Games (ARG)' presented at New Media Consortium Online Conference on Educational Gaming, Online, 8 Dec.
  • Alexander, B. (2006a) 'A New Approach to Gaming and Education: Alternate Reality Games' presented at ELI Annual Meeting: Advancing Learning: Insights and Innovations, San Diego, CA, 30 Jan. Some detail at available at: http://infocult.typepad.com/presentations/2006/01/test.html
  • Alexander, B. (2006b) 'Alternate Reality Game Practice: Puzzles and Design Workshop' presented at ELI Annual Meeting: Advancing Learning: Insights and Innovations, San Diego, CA, 30 Jan.

[edit] Substantial Blog Posts

[edit] Christy Dena

[edit] Academic

  • Dena, C. (2004a) 'Towards a Poetics of Multi-channel storytelling' presented at Critical Animals, This Is Not Art Festival, Newcastle, 1 Oct.
  • Dena, C. (2005a) ‘Elements of “Interactive Drama”: Behind the Virtual Curtain of Jupiter Green” published in Performance Paradigm 1(1).
  • Dena, C. (2005b) 'Texts, Worlds, Realms and Channels: Towards a Taxonomy of Polymorphic Works' presented at SCAtharsis Monthly Seminar Series, University of Melbourne, 17 Aug.
  • Dena, C. (2006a) ‘Clustering Conscious: Towards Polymorphism’ presented at SEAFAM Research Day, University of Sydney, 16 June.
  • Dena, C. (2006b) ‘How the Internet is Holding Together the Conjured Universes’ presented at Internet Research 7.0: Internet Convergences, Association of Internet Researchers, Brisbane, Queensland, 27-30 Sept, 2006.

[edit] Forthcoming PhD.Industry Reports

  • Dena, C. (2004b) 'Current State of Cross Media Storytelling: Preliminary observations for future design' presented by proxy (Monique de Haas) at 'Crossmedia communication in the dynamic knowledge society networking session’ at the European Information Society Technologies (IST) Event 2004: Participate in your future, The Netherlands, 15 Nov.

[edit] Substantial Blog posts

[edit] Henry Jenkins

[edit] Steven E. Jones

  • Jones, S. E. (2005) ‘This Medium will Metastasize: Videogames and Textual Studies’ presented at MLA, Washington, DC, 29 Dec.
  • Book in progress: Textual Studies and Video Games.

[edit] Andrew Losowsky

[edit] Academic

  • Losowsky, A. (2005a) 'Alternate Reality Games and a future of narrative' presented at Science Fiction(s): A Study Day on Science Fiction Film, Television, Literature and New Media, University of Nottingham, 19th August [Online] Available at: post Prandial http://www.losowsky.com/weblog/archives/009727.html.

[edit] Media Articles

[edit] Substantial Blog Posts

[edit] Jane McGonigal

[edit] Chapters & Journal Articles

  • McGonigal, J. (2003a) This Is Not a Game': Immersive Aesthetics and Collective Play' presented at MelbourneDAC: the 5th International Digital Arts and Culture Conference, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, May 19 -23, published at School of Applied Communication, RMIT [Online] Available at: http://hypertext.rmit.edu.au/dac/papers/McGonigal.pdf . PowerPoint available at: www.avantgame.com.
  • McGonigal, J. (2003b) 'A Real Little Game: The Performance of Belief in Pervasive Play' presented at Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) "Level Up" Conference, November, published at www.avantgame.com.
  • McGonigal, J. (2005a) 'Supergaming! Ubiquitous Play and Performance for Massively Scaled Community', W.B. Worthen (ed.) Modern Drama: Special Issue on Technology, 48(3): 471-491. Also published at www.avantgame.com.
  • McGonigal, J. (2006a) ‘The Puppet Master Problem: Design for Real-World, Mission-Based Gaming’ in Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin (Eds) Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media, MIT Press. Also published at www.avantgame.com.

[edit] Presentations

  • McGonigal, J. (2004a) ‘Alternate Reality Gaming: 'Life Imitates ARG”’ presented for the MacArthur Foundation Board of Directors, Nov. PowerPoint from available at www.avantgame.com
  • McGonigal, J. (2004b) 'The Runaway Game: Spectacle and Performance in Public Play' presented at StoryEngines Conference, Stanford University, February, published at www.avantgame.com
  • McGonigal, J. (2005b) ‘Experimental Gameplay: I Love Bees’ presented at Game Developers Conference, March. PowerPoint available at www.avantgame.com
  • McGonigal, J. (2005c) 'I Love Bees: A Buzz Story' presented at Word of Mouth Marketing panel at AD:TECH, San Francisco, 25-27 April. Powerpoint available at www.avantgame.com
  • McGonigal, J. (2005d) 'Alternate Reality Learning' presented at Creative Design panel at the E3 Education Arcade, Los Angeles, 15-17 May, published at www.avantgame.com
  • McGonigal, J. (2005e) ‘Puppetmasters and Performance’ presented at HUMlab, May, Umea, Sweden. PowerPoint from available at www.avantgame.com
  • McGonigal, J. (2005f) ‘Down the rabbit hole’ presented at 050505: Center for New Media Groundbreaking, May. PowerPoint from available at www.avantgame.com
  • McGonigal, J. (2005g) ‘Alternate Reality Gaming: Experimental Social Structures for MMOs’ presented at Austin Game Conference, Oct. PowerPoint from available at www.avantgame.com

[edit] Blog post

[edit] Jason Mittell

[edit] Eva Nieuwdorp

[edit] Henrik Örnebring

  • Örnebring, H. (2006) ‘Extending the Narrative of Alias: the emerging cultural economy of Alternate Reality Gaming’ presented at the TV Fiction Exchange Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, Crewe, UK, Sep 5-8.

[edit] Ravi Purushotma

  • Jenkins, H., R. Purushotma, et al. (forthcoming) ‘Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century’, Project New Media Literacies. See their website: http://www.projectnml.org.
  • Forthcoming Masters thesis, Comparative Media Studies program, MIT. See his website: http://www.lingualgamers.com/thesis.

[edit] Jeremy Reynolds

  • Reynolds, J. (2006) Formation of Shared Group Consciousness through Play: Alternate Reality Games, Masters Synthesis Paper, May, Department of Communication, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne.

[edit] Marc Ruppel

  • Ruppel, M. (2004) ‘Hybrid Channels, Hybrid Stories, Hybrid Minds: Reconstituting Narrative Networks’ English seminar paper presented at University of Maryland College Park, 10 Dec.
  • Ruppel, M. (2005a) ‘Triggers and Traces: Cross-Sited Narratives and Medial Materialities’ presented at the Society Literature and Science Conference, 10-13 Nov.
  • Ruppel, M. (2005b) ‘Learning to Speak Braille: Convergence, Divergence and Cross-Sited Narratives’ PhD Qualifying Exam presentation, 22 Nov.
  • Ruppel, M. (2006a) ‘Many Houses, Many Leaves: Cross-Sited Media Productions and the Problems of Convergent Narrative Networks’ presented at the Digital Humanities 2006 Conference, 4-9 July, Paris-Sorbonne.
  • Ruppel, M. (2006b) ‘Not as LOST as One Might Think....’, blog post at Things as They Are?, 4 May [Online] Available at: http://things.wordherders.net/archives/005843.html
  • Forthcoming PhD thesis.

[edit] Jane Turner and Ann Morrison

  • Turner, J. and A. Morrison (2005) 'Suit Keen Renovator: Alternate Reality Design' presented at The Second Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment Sydney, Nov, published in Y. Pisan (Ed.) Australasian conference on Interactive Entertainment, University of Technology, Sydney, 209-213.
  • Jane Turner’s paper-in-progress: ‘Destination: Space!’.
  • Ann Morrison’s forthcoming thesis.
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