Jumping into Escher: Monument Valley
This is what it must feel like to be inside the mind of M. C. Escher. Monument Valley is a game with 2-dimensional graphics that can never be 3-dimensional. One has […]
Loneliness, Facebook use, and college adjustment
The first year in college can be hard- moving to a new place, meeting new people, being away from family can really affect one’s social adjustment. Social adjustment, in turn, […]
Awesome technologies from “Almost Human”
Almost Human is a sci-fi cop drama that takes place in the year 2048. An Android cop that has been programmed to feel emotion is paired up with a human […]
The New York Times sheds some serifs
The past few days, there was something about the website of The New York TImes that was bothering me, and I finally figured out what it was: serifs. A serif […]
The new production of The Phantom of the Opera
I went to the premiere of the new production of The Phantom of the Opera, which started its US tour in Chicago. I was really looking forward to this new […]
James Franco, Selfies, and Online Self-presentation
I really loved James Franco’s New York Times essay about the “meaning of selfies.” A lot of his personal reflections about why people engage in this particular online self-presentation was […]
Why blame Elsevier? Understanding who “owns” scholarly work
There is currently a very angry discussion among some academics about how the publisher Elsevier is taking down papers that were published by Elsevier and uploaded onto Academia.edu by the […]
Remixing Fairy Tales in Popular Media
What is it about imaginary worlds, fairy tales, and fantasy that excite us? While escaping reality through fiction has been one of the driving forces of popular media content- whether […]
D. Yvette Wohn 