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 & […]
Congress Looks To Halt MySpace In Schools, Libraries 05.12.2006 9:03 AM EDT New bill would ban anyone under 18 from accessing social networking sites. from MTV News The article discusses a new bill being tabled in the US that seeks to limit access to onlone social networks by minors. It certainly seems like a knee-jerk […]
At a CREATEC seminar yesterday Janette Hill from University of Georgia presented a short session about community building in online learning environments. Some important insights for my own investigations into shifting Process Drama into online contexts. Janette introduced Turkle’s suggestion of the self as “sum of distributed presences” and I found the notion very similar to Goffman’s […]
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, […]
There is an article in eSchoolNews today about “safe” social networking that spends a lot of time looking at the usual concerns expressed about kids in schools using these sorts fo environments… Amid rising concerns over popular social networking sites, a new crop of “safe” sites is currently emerging. These “safe” sites hope to limit […]
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’ve just been introduced to a video of an event that took place in the virtual gamescape of World of Warcraft. You can watch the same video here: http://tinyurl.com/lcuct (Be aware some of the text included on the video might fall into the “explicit lyrics” category) I found it incredibly absorbing and was fascinated by […]
Generation Virtual – Forbes.com This Generation Virtual article is intriguing – found it via Greg Verdino’s blog http://gregverdino.typepad.com/greg_verdinos_blog/2008/05/to-v-or-not-to.html Blogged with the Flock Browser