Moving Leadership at Play online

I've been talking about moving my dissertation online for a number of months. I even cleared it with my participants a while back, and a few of them were rather excited by the prospect. At this point I still haven't gotten past creating a page on this site (currently hidden) where I will begin the work of editing the text to improve the parts I don't like, and reformatting it for online readability...

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ongoing

There is a space.

Inside of it is an unknown construct.

It metastasizes, and other spaces become involved.

Next thing you know, all kinds of parts are spinning in different directions.

...moving on.

Narrative: The dark questions

What are we in conflict with?

What are we actually striving for?

What do we fear?

What do we hope for?

How will it end?

Games and narrative: Conflicting definitions

I've tried to keep this installment on games and narrative shorter than the previous one, but I'm afraid I haven't been entirly successful. After all, this post dips into some pretty deep theoretical territory and you know how that goes. At any rate, this post starts with a conversation that happened on Google+ in a thread John Woodring started about gamification in education . At some point in the thread, Roger Travis and I drifted into a fairly theoretical conversation about games and narrative.

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Games and narrative: Narrative vs. story

The perennial "narrative in games" conversation has been in pretty high gear on the internets of late. I'm less interested in why the topic is popping up again with such regularity, and more concerned with trying to find some clarity on the topic so that we can move past rehashing ye olde ludology vs. narratology debate when we talk about what games are. I intend to resurrect some of the threads of that conversation in order to reconcile them with my own stance on games and narrative, but before I do that there's a little backfilling to do. For that reason, I'm going to proceed through a number of smaller posts on this topic (starting with this one) rather than dumping all of my thoughts on narrative and games in one massive wall of text.

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