About the Authors
We’ve finally started managing to get these into separate pages for easier future reference… so below you’ll find brief autobiographical statements. Click on our respective names for more in-depth profiles, including our individual media preferences.
Ivan Askwith
I am a recent alum of the Program in Comparative Media Studies at MIT, where I wrote a thesis which serves as the first draft of a more complete work I’m (ostensibly) in the process of writing about television’s ongoing transformation into an “engagement medium.” This effort is being both helped and hindered by my new full-time role as a Creative Strategist at Big Spaceship, a digital creative agency based in Brooklyn, NY. If this is slowing down my output as a writer, though, it’s well worth it: I’ve been able to make the leap from academia to put at least one foot back into “the industry,” where I’m able to use the research and theorizing I did at MIT to help explore new possibilities for transmedia extensions around films, television series, and consumer brands.
Derek Johnson
I am a PhD candidate in Media and Cultural Studies within the Communication Arts Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My dissertation examines media franchises spanning television, film, comic books, video games, and merchandising, asking how they have developed historically along creative, economic, and cultural trajectories. I have published articles and book chapters in New Review of Film and Television, Film and Comic Books, and Fandom: Communities and Identities in a Mediated World.
Jonathan Gray
An international being, I was raised in Toronto, Canada; Surrey, England; Perth, Australia; Singapore; Hong Kong; Vancouver, Canada; and since then have been a resident of Leeds, England; London, England; Oakland, CA; and now Queens, NY. I am an avid watcher of television, but also an on-again, off-again film buff, lit lover, PS2 player, and music lover.
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