The Register doesn’t like Wikipedia much (but then they don’t like much much). So it doesn’t surprise that the glee is explicit here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/24/wiki_contributors_declining/ Fewer people are working on Wikipedia for free it seems. There could be a number of explanations. It may be that as the content has filled up, many feel that they… [Read more…]
June 11, 2009
Here is the text of a short talk for the department seminar tomorrow… It seems rather obvious and not at all theoretical to claim that consumer culture is playful, yet there are plenty of play metaphors in consumer research. But is play only metaphor, or possibility in consumption? I want to spend a few minutes thinking… [Read more…]
February 16, 2009
...play presents itself as a worthwhile purpose and an explanation for the fragmented, individualised, but still meaningful experiences of the consumer.
May 23, 2008
Janice and I have recently been in the company of a lot of lawyers at an Information Society Network workshop at Exeter University. Our presentation was on the stuff you may be used to me writing about; interactive media is a liminal space in which a variety of consumer desires may be actualised and elaborated.… [Read more…]
November 24, 2009
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