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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Overcoming Apartheid Web Site

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Alternative Look at Atton

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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Change Congress

I am very much motivated by the backbone of Lawrence Lessig’s book Code.  I am excited by the thought he introduces, which before hadn’t crossed my mind in a fundamental way, that is how architecture (and in his specific purpose code) determines behavior.  I am particularly excited about the last chapter, which talks about the [...]

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Creepy Treehouse

This is an interesting article about using cyberspaces in education: http://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org/2008/04/09/defining-creepy-tree-house/

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Thank Goodness for Collective Intelligence

Pierre Levy’s notion of collective intelligence being one of the most important effects of the internet is one that I have always found compelling. However I did not realize how vital this capacity can be for scholars, particularly scholars working in the world of video game studies. During my research project on BioShock I had [...]

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Rethinking Copyleft

http://creativecommons.org/ http://questioncopyright.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/code-version-20-by-lawrence-lessig-439385.html http://www.scribd.com/doc/322877/Lawrence-Lessigs-Code-20

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Another Model for the Distribution of Music on the Internet?

Here is an interesting article about how Trent Reznor, the lead-singer of Nine Inch Nails, has found another way for musicians to distribute free music to fans via the Internet, while still providing a way for the band to make money. Unlike Radiohead, which offered fans the ability to name their own price (as low [...]

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

The Influence of Video Games Upon Other Forms of Media

Video games are a booming media industry that are influencing other forms of media. Beyond just film (Mortal Kombat) and television (The Super Mario Brothers) programs that are based upon video game narrative, it seems that concepts of interactivity and distribution models taken from video games are now being applied to other forms of media. [...]

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Experimenting with Ideology

While I find the artificial choice between ludology and narratology inherently problematic I still find Gonzalo Frasca’s article “Simulation versus Narrative: Introduction to Ludology” very valuable. Although it is not a part of the article’s title I find the way that Frasca draws attention to the way in which game rules and structure can contain [...]

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