I have never been a fan of video games. My generation just missed the cut-off for what I will call the “video game revolution.” The only video game I remember playing, as an adult, was Pong and the first incarnation…
English 5010
What is Jeopardy Brainwashing?
by Mariana • • 0 Comments
The first T.V. show I remember watching as a family was Jeopardy. This was the eighties version of the show, hosted by Alex Trebek. Today, I am not a fan of quiz games in any form. I have no interest…
English 5010
Literacy Games
by rhetdezigner • • 0 Comments
After considering the latest class chat on rhetorix about gaming and the articles “Learning and Games,”by James Paul Gee and “Productive Gaming: The Case for Historiographic Game Play,” by Kurt Squire and Shree Durga, I put more score on the…
English 5010
Looking Backward From a Forward-Moving Edge
by Anne Engert • • 0 Comments
What is the role of media culture in my life and environment? What media artifact reflects my relationship with the dominant media culture in America? Those questions are as impossible to quantify in one artifact as is the concept of…
English 5010
Final Paper Proposal: How is the Internet changing the definition of Privacy?
by Alex Janney • • 0 Comments
How has the definition of privacy changed with the increased use of new digital media, specifically, the Internet? What is it about anonymity that is transforming what people choose to share? What is private and what is public when it…
From the Field
Center for Innovation, Creativity and Access to Knowledge
by Kim De Vries • • 0 Comments
We, a broad coalition from over 20 countries, of hundreds of thousands of citizens, users, consumers, organizations, artists, hackers, members of the free culture movement, economists, lawyers, teachers, students, researchers, scientists, activists, workers, unemployed, entrepreneurs, creators… We invite all citizens…