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Female Gamer Blog Link
I know that some of you wanted the link for that blog about the top ten things that female gamers hear on Xbox Live that I linked everyone to during the online class chat a few weeks ago. Here you go http://hawtymcbloggy.com/2007/07/06/top-10-things-female-gamers-hear-on-xbox-live/ »
Media Artifact: Xbox FTW :)
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 really do love my Xbox. I’ve been playing video games since I was... »
Learn AND Play? Impossible!
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 really feel like putting more of a link between gaming and education would... »
Linux, Windows, Mac, Oh My!
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 Mac, and how they are essentially using their users as little more than... »
Scouting Report- Xbox 360
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 not math, I thought this idea would lend itself well to the growing... »
Intimacy in New Media
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 has had both positive and negative effects–specifically, on the pro side, that... »
Making Friends in New Media
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). This article was especially interesting to me because of something that happened to me... »
With Great Power, Comes Great (Ir)Responsibility
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 Technology and Power” is the theme that if powerful technology is going to... »