About cyberspace, games, digital life, Second Life, etc.
Anyone who has used Facebook recently will know that Facebook’s new “security” feature is extremely annoying. The Connected Profiles feature gives you the choice of connecting completely, or not at […]
A 43-year old man in South Korea was arrested by police on April 30 for alleged illegal election activity, Korean media sources report. (Being arrested in Korea does not mean […]
Henry Jenkin’s post on politics in Second Life reminded me of my own observations in Second Life which I’ve been meaning to write about. The interesting thing about Second life […]
(cross-posted on Play As Life) Why do people play games? A lot of scholars and market researchers have looked at game motivations and have pretty much come up with similar […]
About a week ago, I was telling my colleague about how we should do a study about how social network sites are increasingly becoming people’s initial (if not primary) news […]
I am all about games being used as an educational tool. I am all about games being used to increase awareness or instigate action. I am NOT about games that […]
Another example of a waste of bandwidth and memory is this blog post saying that farming in Farmville is different from reality; thus we need to do farming in real […]
The OJR posted an article that is by far the stupidest argument I’ve ever seen on why journalism is bound to fail. The gist of the argument is that people […]
D. Yvette Wohn 