Table of Contents for Vol. 3, No. 1 Spring 2014

Introduction
- Exploring and Designing Virtual Worlds
  The Editors
Focus
- An Introduction to Alex McDowell's "World Building"
  Noah Wardrip-Fruin
- "World Building"
  Alex McDowell
- Media Systems - Envisioning the Future of Computational Media
  Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Michael Mateas
Features
- Pudding Lane: Recreating Seventeenth-Century London
  Joe Dempsey, Daniel Hargreaves, Daniel Peacock, Chelsea Lindsey, Dominic Bell, Luc Fontenoy and Heather Williams
- Transforming the Object of our Study: The Early Modern Sermon and the Virtual Paul’s Cross Project
  John N. Wall
- Digital Ethnography Toward Augmented Empiricism: A New Methodological Framework
  Wendy F. Hsu
- Code Appendix for "Digital Ethnography"
  Wendy F. Hsu
DH2013 Poster Gallery
- DH@WIT: Digital Humanities for Undergraduate Design, Engineering, and Management Students
  Christopher Scott Gleason
- Modelling the Interpretation of Literary Allusion with Machine Learning Techniques
  Neil Coffee, James Gawley, Christopher Forstall, Walter Scheirer, David Johnson, Jason Corso and Brian Parks
- “Making the Digital Humanities More Open": Modeling Digital Humanities for a Wider Audience
  Cory Bohon, Jennifer Guiliano, James Smith, George Williams and Amanda Visconti
- Exploring Social Tags in a Digitized Humanities Online Collection
  Youngok Choi and Sue Yeon Syn
- DARIAH-EU’s Virtual Competency Center on Research and Education
  Christof Schöch, Dallas Costis, Matt Munson, Toma Tasovac, Erik Malcolm Champion, Susan Schreibman, Agiatis Benardou, Marianne Ping Huang and Petra Links
- “Where do you need us?” — The National Library in the Digital Humanities
  Aly Conteh and Lotte Wilms
- Encoding Historical Financial Records
  Kathryn Tomasek and Syd Bauman
- Digitization and Dissemination: A Reverse Image Lookup Study to Assess the Reuse of Images of Paintings from the National Gallery's Website
  Isabella Kirton and Melissa Terras
- Great Parchment Book Project
  Nicola Avery, Alberto Campagnolo, Caroline De Stefani, Kazim Pal, Matthew Payne, Philippa Smith, Rachael Smither, Ann Stewart, Emma Stewart, Patricia Stewart, Melissa Terras, Laurence Ward, Tim Weyrich and Liz Yamada
- Juxta Commons
  Dana Wheeles and Kristin Jensen
- Debates in the Digital Humanities: Scholarly Publishing Across Print/Digital Streams
  Matthew K. Gold, Douglas Armato, Zach Davis, Matthew Slaats and Mark Abrams
- Visual Historiography: Visualizing “The Literature of a Field”
  David J. Staley, Scot A. French and Bill Ferster
Authors

“World Building”

Alex McDowell

Alex McDowell — World Building

Video of this presentation to the Media Systems convening at the University of California, Santa Cruz on August 27, 2012 originally published on September 11, 2013.

About Alex McDowell

Alex McDowell RDI is an award-winning designer and storyteller working at the intersection of emergent technologies and experiential media. He is the creative director of 5D Global Studio, where he and his team design immersive story worlds and their end products for industries and institutions. As director of the USC World building Media Lab, McDowell and his interdisciplinary students build future worlds for storytelling across multiple platforms. He also leads the USC 5D Institute, a renowned, multidisciplinary knowledge space. McDowell has 30 years experience as a production designer in feature films, and serves on the executive board of the Academy of Motion Pictures Designers Branch. As a visiting artist to the MIT Media Lab, he designed the robotic opera, "Death and Powers.” In 2006 he was awarded Royal Designer for Industry by the UK Royal Society of the Arts. He was recently honored as USC William Cameron Menzies Endowed Chair in Production Design by George Lucas.