I’ve gone on ad nauseum about my gaming hobby and therefore passion for Xbox Live, so it really seems like if I picked anything but an Xbox for my media artifact, I’d just be lying. And that’s the truth. I…

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In this week’s blog, I discussed the link between gaming and education (at least the link that could exist but currently doesn’t). It’s a topic I’ve addressed quite a bit in my blog because of my Xbox addiction, but I…

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I wrote my blog this week about how consumer-driven software (like that mentioned in “Participation Inside?” by Schaeffer) is becoming a bigger threat, like Linux Ubuntu. I also ranted (I’ll be honest, it was seriously a rant) about Windows and…

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For my scouting report, I looked at one of the past Xbox Live interviews on file from March–a girl (a college student in Illinois) uses Live to tutor students from the local high school in math. While English is definitely…

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This week I wrote about how relationships are shaped by the New Media. As shown by the YouTube videos about Facebook, technology has had a powerful effect on the way we view intimacy and relationships. I believe that this technology…

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In “Young People, Ethics, and the New Digital Media,” the authors writing the paper explored the “ways in which youth may be redefining identity, privacy, ownership, credibility, & participation as they engage with the new digital media” (James, et. al).…

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In Selber’s “Reimagining Computer Literacy,” he makes some very good points about computer literacy as it currently stands and what it could be in the future. One thing I noticed in both Selber and then in Rheingold’s interview “Shifts of…

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