This is rich: how is the Church considering transmedial strategies to deliver the Holy Gospel?

Check this interview by Sam Ford (one of the Convergence Culture evangelists) to a very modern priest.

The announcement is a bit old (posted on January 3 on Advergaming), but I will pass it on anyway for the italian readers, maybe it is not too late.

At Nike Italy we are currently looking for a young talent to join for six months our brand communication team. If you’re interested and qualified for the position, your English (as well as your Italian!) is excellent and you are willing to move to Bologna, please send me your CV to this address: submitnews @ adverblog. com.

good luck!

The Association of Internet Researchers is finally having its conference in Europe, specifically in Copenhagen, next October. Deadline for abstract submissions is February 7, call for papers here

I am not sure this is transmedial, but it sure is a citizen production, and a very good one indeed.
The italian text below explains how “Addio Pizzo” (”Bye Bye Racket”) is a grassroots organization starting on the Internet, offering free downloads of stickers and other material to spread the message. This happens in Palermo, against the Mafia. Something similar is happening in Naples against the camorra (you did know that there are different kind of mafias in Italy, didn’t you?) with the Neapolitan group ContraCamorra.
To emulate immediately. Possibly adding some trasmedial strategies.
www.addiopizzo.org/

(translation: a whole nation who pays racket is a nation without dignity)

(courtesy of Produzioni Dal Basso)

DAL BASSO CONTRO LA MAFIA

In questo blog da circa un anno ci occupiamo di tecniche e progetti dell’autoproduzione culturale. Questo post potrebbe quindi sembrare fuori tema… ma non è così.
L’associazione AddioPizzo nasce con una iniziativa particolare, hanno cominciato ad attaccare adesivi (vedi foto sopra) per la città di palermo facendo parecchio rumore in città. Ora che il numero di adesioni è aumentato è possibile scaricare e diffondere materiale di diverso tipo (adesivi, manifesti, volantini) e sono così nati altri gruppi di attacchini come il gruppo napoletano ContraCamorra
Inoltre AddioPizzo, come associazione nata dal basso, sta promuovendo un sistema di consumo critico con l’intento di aiutare le aziende siciliane che si rifiutano di pagare il pizzo e di convivere con la mafia….

Technorati Tags: media activism, participatory

Parking Wars: the game is an advergaming for the upcoming A&E television series Parking Wars about metermaids and parking reinforcements (!) ; the game is a Facebook application to promote the show, in which you have to put cars in your friends’ streets and if the cars stay long enough they start earning money - as Ian Bogost points out, this structure really takes advantage of the social network structure, and, I might add, it adds a whole new dimension to the cross media product. When are we going to see content creation through Facebook applications? I mean, micro-content adding up to some story universe? Has it been done already?/news courtesy of Water Cooler Games