The fourth panel from the Comparative Media Studies 10th anniversary symposium.
Podcast: “Robots and Media: Science Fiction, Anime, Transmedia, and Technology”
How has science fiction has influenced the development of real robotic systems, both in research laboratories and corporations?
Podcast: Mia Consalvo, “Western Otaku: Games Crossing Cultures”
Through in-depth interviews with such players, this study investigates how transnational fandom operates in the realm of videogame culture, and how a particular group of videogame players interprets their gameplay experience in terms of a global, if hybrid, industry.
Podcast: Ethan Gilsdorf, “Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks”
Ethan Gilsdorf discussed some of the themes of his new book, Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms, a blend of travelogue, pop culture analysis, and memoir as forty-year-old former D&D addict Gilsdorf crisscrosses America, the world, and other worlds–from Boston to Wisconsin, France to New Zealand, and Planet Earth to the realm of Aggramar.
Podcast and video: “Global Television”
Eggo Müller, Roberta Pearson, and William Uricchio discuss the origins and significance of the international distribution of television formats and programs.
