Trinity College has made available.. term papers written by undergraduate students in the class “Games for the Web: Ethnography of Massively Multiplayer On-line Games.” These students used a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods to explore sociological issues associated with massively multiplayer virtual worlds. Each student in the class pursued a different research question. […]
Dr Dean Chan presented at the CREATEC seminar today about his work in Theorising Diasporic Asian Cultures. His discussion on Asian American Gamers was a taster of his ongoing research into this area. His introduction of the “Garden Grove” experience of a few years ago was especially interesting albeit very brief. PRIVACY, FREE SPEECH & […]
Aula 2006 is an event about the direction of society, culture and technology. The theme Movement points to mobile 2.0 (mobility meets web 2.0), the overlapping of the physical and the virtual, and the social movement-like nature of new technologies. On a personal level, movement is about not staying still but taking action to shape […]
Turbulence blog reports: New Scientist reveals that the Pentagon’s NSA in the form of ARDA (Advanced Research Development Activity) are interested in the information people post about themselves on social networking sites like MySpace and are funding research into it’s mass harvesting. The W3C WWW2006 conference accepted a paper entitled Semantic Analytics on Social Networks, […]
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 […]
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 […]