I will be live blogging from the NCA Convention in San Francisco Nov. 14-17.
11/17/10 5:12PM – I went to Fisherman’s Warf for seafood and then walked all the way to the Golden Gate Bridge. That was about a two mile walk. I tried to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge but I got too cold and tired and had to turn back. The video is posted below. I also went to the Castro and Haight Ashbury. I will post pictures of that later.
11/17/10 12:00PM – I went to a panel and listened to G. Thomas Goodnight, a legend in communication studies, deliver a paper on the economic collapse. After that, I went to a performance studies panel. I now have a greater understanding of what performance studies entails.
11/16/10 9:15PM – I went to some great panels today. I went to one on LGBT collective memory that was incredibly eye opening. Later I went to a panel featuring Dana Cloud from UT-Austin. Yeah, the Dana Cloud that was named one of the most dangerous professors in the country by a far right-wing nut that I won’t mention. The panel was on multiple personae based on Black’s seminal work. By the way, she is super nice and in my opinion a genius. They explained that there is not just the first persona and the second persona but also a third persona, fourth persona, null persona, and the transformative persona. This has given me all kinds of ideas for the ideographic criticism that I am working on right now. I have been trying to combine ideographic criticism with the second persona and now I think I have the framework to pull if off. The convention ends at noon tomorrow so I will actually get to do some sightseeing tomorrow afternoon and evening.
11/15/10 6:00PM – My vision for the live blog is not necessarily panning out. I was hoping to blog updates all the time but I have been too busy and WIFI at the convention hotel is not reliable for some reason. My twitter feed has been better if you want to check that out.
I wandered into a panel on spiritual communication and was pleasantly surprised. One of the papers even used fantasy theme criticism.
I went on a double-decker tour bus today and saw a lot of cool sites including Fisherman’s Warf. I streamed video live and saved the video to my Ustream account. You can see it below this post.
I had some great sushi at a little family owned restaurant called Sushi Boat.
11/14/10 9:44PM – It’s been a long day. I am going to post the pictures I took today, tomorrow. Until then, here is a video that I shot right before the NCA opening session.
11/14/10 3:16PM – I tried to sleep late this morning but I could only sleep until 9:00AM. I did some exploring this morning and went to the Union Square. They have an ice skating rink there in 75 degree weather! I took lots of picture that I will post tonight. I went to a panel on audience immersion and enjoyment. I learned about transportation and transportability. No, that has nothing to do with infrastructure or vehicles. I went to a Graduate School open house that was packed. Imagine 500 students fighting for attention from 30 schools. Now I’m about to attend a panel on exposure patterns in new media.
11/14/10 12:50AM – Just checked into my hotel. I am in the middle of downtown. This should be a fun week.
Bookmark this link and check back for live updates.
No related posts.
Ah, technology… yet this is really amazing that we have the capability to do this at all. San Fran looks like a fun place to visit. Love the VO of the tour guide.