Tech-savvy militants from al Qaeda and other groups have modified video war games so that U.S. troops play the role of bad guys in running gunfights against heavily armed Islamic radical heroes, Defense Department official and contractors told Congress. gamepolitics blog reports on a bizarre US Congress blunder surrounding a machinima film made by a […]
I’ve just been reading a series of linked discussions about the connections between real-world and virtual-world economies and marketing practices. The gist of the discussion is that virtual world inhabitants, in the form of avatars, are being framed as consumers and offered products that effectively exist only in the virtual world. we make money not […]
A useful little offering comes from Protopage. You are offered a free start page where you store all sorts of material. I find it especially useful for maintaining a list of sites, RSS feeds and other material for my students at university. I can quickly add new information anytime I’m online. I can create new […]
I believe Stelarc has added arms and ears but not amputated anything. He has speculated on the worth of the wetware we are born with and whether or not we might be better off replacing it with hardware. You said “My main concern is I guess to suggest that maybe there should be boundaries to […]
The people at Symbiotica have to follow very rigorous ethics protocols – they form part of the school of Anatomy and Human Biology at UWA – http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/ and have to meet all the ethics requirements of any other research program.  What interests me about their work is the excision of arbitrary boundaries on knowledge – […]
Well, here’s the update… I can finally start doing the practical phase of the work. ECU have granted ethics clearance. I hope you will all be able to make the times and dates I propose – demand for space is at a premium. The planned Process Drama sessions are: Tuesday May 30, 2006  7:00-9:00pm Thursday […]
Webvisions 2006 will soon convene to examine the possible futures of the web. Some of the proposed explorations are intrigiung and I will be following developments with interest. Luke Williams’ keynote promises: Throughout the electronic age, people have become accustomed to interacting with digital media indirectly, mediated through screens and peripheral devices. But now, as […]
So, if we are going to embark on this journey we need to envision this new Drama form. What features will it need? Upon what poetics will it operate? How will it maintain all that is “good” about current drama practice?
Drama Teacher as Game Master: the development of a new model of online Drama for learning. As the world shifts from a “knowledge” economy to a “creative” economy, there will be significant changes needed in the way we frame education and learning. Traditional education models are likely to become less relevant and less useful in […]
Well, I kicked off with a flying start yesterday, now comes the challenge of keeping this alive.. I read somewhere that many pulic blogging sites have a huge attrition rate after the initial entry for many people… Currently I am reading broadly in areas relating to education, gaming, training simulations, performance studies, research methods, human-computer […]