Gaming as Learning: A Paradigm Shift Required I read three times for this text, and I have experienced such a resistance to comprehend what is going on in the content. What happened? I realized that I had such a strong…
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Literacy, Artifact, and the Brownie
by rhetdezigner • • 0 Comments
In my library on the top of one of my shelves sits a humble display of media nostalgia. The Royal typewriter reminds me of my mom working hard at home while my sisters were in school typing income tax returns…
Little Brother, Big Implications
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Cory Doctorow’s text Little Brother yields multiple implications for the society in which we (hopefully not blindly) reside. Doctorow’s entertaining yet horrifying depiction of Marcus and his experience with the Department of Homeland Security, exemplifies a reactionary response to a terrorist…
Do Video Games in the Classroom Come up Short?
by Alex Janney • • 1 Comment
I’m all for any type of educational tool that encourages enthusiasm in students. As Gee and Squire both point out, the introduction of video games as teaching tools is one that could prove beneficial in the classroom. With a sense…
Sample Proposals
by Kim De Vries • • 2 Comments
Here are several proposals I have successfully submitted for conferences. They may be helpful examples. Desire, Dissent and Differentiation: Sustaining Growth in Virtual Networks — New Network Theory 2008 Many if not all virtual communities have been spawned out of…
How much truth is in Little Brother?
by Alex Janney • • 0 Comments
As I read Little Brother, I thought about how it’s not so far fetched for the government to be targeting kids and teenagers when it comes to terrorism connected to technology. After all, wouldn’t it make the most sense that…
We’rrrre off…
by rhetdezigner • • 0 Comments
Even today, the old adage “What goes around comes around” is alive and well. Or, wait, maybe its “Cheaters never prosper”…? When it comes to Mirko Tobias Schäfer’s article “Participation Inside,” it seems once more that civil disobedience just doesn’t…
Critiquing Matthew Hindman’s “The Myth of Digital Democracy” | techPresident
by Kim De Vries • • 0 Comments
Last night political scholar Micah Sifry debated Matthew Hindman at Yale; prior to the debate he published this preview of his response to Hindman’s article. He challenges Hindman on both his generalizations, and his neglect of technologies that don’t fit…
Little Brother: More Scary Truth Than Fiction
by Anne Engert • • 0 Comments
I almost quit reading Little Brother when I reached the chapter where Marcus is subjected to psychological and physical torture by dubiously constituted Homeland Security authorities. Not because I felt the scenario to be too outlandish, but because I found…
Commercialism and the Internet
by Mike • • 0 Comments
The word “capital” seems to be coming up a lot lately in our readings; cultural capital, digital capital, social capital. A spin-off of the word capital is capitalism. Capitalism is linked to commerce by virtue of capital; in the sense…