Biased video game studies
What annoys me about studies conducted on the violence factor of video games is that the researchers can’t overcome their bias towards games and make such an effort to label […]
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Yay, Eli is back
After I read that ABC wasn’t going to continue Eli Stone, I was extremely disappointed, so you can imagine my surprise when I discovered that it is already well into […]
SL as an education tool
Charlie Nesson spoke to the alumni association today about Second Life and some of the problems we must address if we are to use it as an educational platform. He […]
Digital Brats
I feel that communications technologies- as they become more advanced- are not making human beings more sophisticated, but rather nurturing immaturity and insolence. I am only speaking from a communications […]
Michelle Obama
The New Museum joins Elizabeth Peyton in paying tribute to incoming First Lady Michelle Obama, whose portrait with her daughter Sasha will be unveiled today on the 4th floor as […]
Encrypting Email
Why don’t people encrypt their email? That was the question we were asked for this week after reading Chapter 5 of Blown to Bits. The chapter is about encryption and […]
Jumping on the Opensource Bandwagon
Why spend money to develop applications when you can get others to do it– for free? Seeing the positive effects of engaging third party developers, hardware makers and Internet service […]
Gaming for a cause
A lot of games these days involve playing for a cause- LIl’ Green Patch, for example, is a simulation game where you plant and tend your garden, but the time […]
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