Category Entertainment
What I Learned from Netflix: Why #OITNB Totally Works.
*NOTE: this is a re-published blog from a piece I wrote on ZoomTilt’s blog. _____________________________ A colleague of mine has been buzzing about her latest gig for the past few months now. Her email announcement that she landed a role on a new series created by the one-and-only-one, Jenji Kohan was super exciting both for […]
“You-Pedia”: Is “Viral” as Democratic as We Hoped?
This week I started full-time for the summer with ZoomTilt, the Boston based start up that I have been working with for a little under a year now. As the “Manager of Brand and Community Relations” I am responsible for all things that include communications to our internal and external communities; basically the public relations […]
[Working Title Thesis] Can Narrative Complexity Exist in Viral Video?: Should it? Could it? Will it?
Below is my proposal for this semester’s thesis in the Graduate Visual and Media Arts department at Emerson College. I will be further exploring my research by posting my thoughts and analysis here on Red Gypsy. Feedback is applauded. The migration of modern media to the Internet has affected every media outlet known to man. […]
Love and Other Stuff.
Ah, it is here. Valentine’s Day. My least favorite holiday. And yes, that is because I am one of those bitter people. But I am also pretty sure that it also has to do with the fact that “love” this really overly complicated feeling is somehow positioned to be a tangible, purchasable thing on this […]
What is interactivity?
What I found to be the most profound in this week’s readings for Interactive Writing in the VM-606 class at Emerson College was the debate on what defines “interactivity” in Chapter 6 of Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals. Before I dive into my debate on why I was so interested in the many definitions […]
Entertai(n)eur
Internally, I’ve struggled in recent years to define myself to people when asked the question: “What do you do?” A question that is almost always followed by: “Well, what’s the dream? What’s the goal?” This past week I was asked those questions many times and for the first time in my life I felt completely […]
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