Jan 132009
 

I decided over the weekend that it was high-time to move my old essay from Flow TV, “The Wii-volution will not be Televised” into the academic arena. In particular it was several recent (not so recent now) articles about Sony “opening” up the PS2 that seemed to push me over the edge. While I have not decided upon a particular venue for this essay yet, though my initial estimation is with New Media and Society.

In part this was due to watching several people at conferences in my relatively recent past talk about precisely what I had written, as if it hadn’t ever been mentioned before. I have actually written about it twice now, once in Flow TV and once in my dissertation, but if my words fall in the forest and no one is listening, apparently it doesn’t really make a sound or matter. Continue reading »