User:Eternal scholar

Eternal looser?
As my login name implies, I'm a sort of eternal student. This doesn't mean that I have decided to spend the rest of my life taking university courses because I don't know what else to do or that I have no professional experience in the "real world" whatsoever, but rather that I'm on a sort of personal quest to make sense of this "real world" through learning, thinking and expending my knowledge. It is true though that I wish to spend as much of my life as possible within the academic realm or at least in scholarly activities as a researcher in social science. Ideally, I see myself alternating consultancy positions for the industrial sector and research projects sponsored by university and/or other public institutions.

Right now
I'm working on a Ph.D. dissertation in Media & Communication Studies, dealing with the worldwide distribution of TV series on DVD and with the impact the uses of this storage device has on the reception of its content by various audiences. I'm especially interested in consumer's criteria of choice when they are confronted with the possibility to enjoy the same narrative made available on various digital content delivery technologies (DVD, WebTV, Websites, video games, online games). I would like to understand what place consumers give to the DVD in their experience with different products based on the same story.

Wikipedia and I
Although I have been using Wikipedia for a while as an access point to very rich resources, I'm completely new to this type of platform as a potential contributor. Even the present writing interface is quite new to me, so I'll have to learn as I do.

Quid dicis?
I can write (read and speak) in French, English and German, but I'm most at ease in the first two. I tend to consult the Wikipedia article in at least 2 of these 3 languages. However, for this presentation, I prefer to do it in English, the present lingua franca (and probably for another few years).