Tag / #audience
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Innovation According to Star Wars
In my last post on the Star Wars universe, I advised disgruntled fans that creating an original piece of work would help them sympathize with authors better. I want to elaborate with…
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A Remote Learning Lesson from My Great Aunt Doris
A few months ago, I found an old box of papers from my grandfather’s sister. A career stenographer for most of the 20th century, my mom’s Aunt Doris regular dashed off messages…
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What is a Game?
A game is a framework for play and interaction. It’s an effective set of rules to direct our many forms of individual and group exercise. Sports games focus on our physical muscles.…
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The Imagination According to Star Wars
In my twenties, I worked with a guy who loved Star Wars as much as I did, but with one big difference between us. He loved dogma and I did not. Back…
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I Know Who Wins the Game of Thrones
But first, what is a game? The word grows more interesting as our world—and language itself—grow more “gamified.” The classic definition of a game—a set of rules for play or competition— emphasizes…
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Your Audience is Not Like You
This thesis keeps occurring to me and I need to give it a draft or two. It’s a variation on the cliché that you shouldn’t “preach to the choir.” Then to whom…
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Take the Critique, Not to Heart
The final assignment for my writing class is a comprehensive article built from everything we practice over the semester—plus a publishing plan. I tell students not to post their final blog assignment,…
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A Stranger is Worth More Than a Friend
The campaign to delete Facebook is trending again. I say again, because this isn’t the first time. Facebook lost 6 million users in mid-2011 after one particularly uproar-inducing redesign. People predicted the…
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Interactivity According to Star Wars
At the end of last year, I wrote about how the Star Wars films explain the complications of the Internet. Just a few decades ago, everyone was a spectator and reader of…
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Online, No One Knows Your Age
My grandmother used to say she never felt any older than eighteen. I’ve heard many variations on this sentiment, but only decades after I connected the thought with her. She died when…
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