Kelly Boudreau

Full Circle

Sometimes the research and the writing process has nothing to do with actually reading and writing, but rather, letting things stew in the back of your mind while you do other things. This is a hard process to accept – especially in the world of deadlines and other people’s schedules. However, I am happy toContinue reading “Full Circle”

It’s (almost) Summertime

(Finally) got news back from DiGRA – it’s a ‘yay’ .. now for the budgeting… I am excited to go to London again, but oouf the $$! Oh well, if I have to pay for one conference this year, it would be DiGRA =) Things have been chugging along- working alot at EA – wasContinue reading “It’s (almost) Summertime”

EverQuest: 10 Years and still chugging along

The sad thing is, I missed EQ’s actual “anniversary” this past March. The good news is I found an absolutely great write-up on it. As someone who started her hardcore gaming with EverQuest in August of 1999 (notwithstanding weekend-long Killer Instinct parties and an addictive passage through Super Mario Bros. on the SNES when IContinue reading “EverQuest: 10 Years and still chugging along”

Back to Indexicality

I have been working on my secondary comprehensive exam paper/topic again . Again might not be the right word. It started out as a paper on figural meaning and its relationship to indexicality through the process of one’s imaginary museum (Lefebvre), but for the allocated length of the paper, it was way too much. IContinue reading “Back to Indexicality”

Horror: Hell in a handbasket I tell ya!

Sitting in the car last night, stuck in traffic, a radio announcement came on for the new movie “Drag Me To Hell“. At first we thought it was a parody, or some strange credit commercial; but no – it was dead serious – meant to make us scream in terror. If horror films follow contemporaryContinue reading “Horror: Hell in a handbasket I tell ya!”

APA Style Guide Update – 2009

Thank you to the Association of Internet Researchers mailing list (and to Debashis ‘Deb’ Aikat, Ph. D., Associate Professor and Media Futurist School of Journalism and Mass Communication at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for posting it to the list), there will be a “6th” edition of the APA guidelines – which willContinue reading “APA Style Guide Update – 2009”

The Day After

I have posts from pre-CGSA (friday night fun in Ottawa) and Day 1 to wrap up and post, but I have to say, the day after any conference, there is always a feeling of both relief and exhaustion. A mix of feeling a bit lighter (something you have been working on and stressing about overContinue reading “The Day After”

CGSA – Day 2 – Panel 4 & 5

Session 4 – Alternative Play Spaces This sessions dealt with the ever-neglected (imo) topic of health issues/education and videogames. Fern Delamere kicked the 4th session off with her presentation called Place Matters: social Construction, Disability Groups and the Virtual World Second Life. Her focus is to look at the virtual worlds in respect to theContinue reading “CGSA – Day 2 – Panel 4 & 5”

CGSA – Day 2 – Afternoon ( Panel 3)

Session 3 – What Really Happened? After a great morning, and a pretty decent lunch with pretty great people, we are head into the last two panels of CGSA 2009. Kicking things off is Cindy Poremba with her talk Frames and Simulated Documents: Indexicality in Documentary Videogames which focuses on the game JFK Reloaded, andContinue reading “CGSA – Day 2 – Afternoon ( Panel 3)”

CGSA 2009 – Day 2 – Morning Sessions

Session 1 -Readerly/Writerly Play The first session of the day was (happily) at 10am – started with Jim Bizzocchi gave an animated presentation titled Close-Reading and the Poetics of Form in an Emergent Medium (unfortunately, his co-author Joshua Tanenbaum was not present). Essentially, a presentation on methods and processes of close readings – looking atContinue reading “CGSA 2009 – Day 2 – Morning Sessions”