Check out the UBC VideoGame Course
“Press Start: Culture, Industry, and Innovation in Japanese Gaming” conference @ UBC – February 27 & 28, 2015
Video games are within the purview of this course but because of the “other” course we have generally stayed away from the subject. That said the conference at UBC t his coming Friday and Saturday, February 27 & 28, 2015 may be of some interest. Scholars, players, and designers will come together in a wide […]
Jon Ronson on public shaming
Jon Ronson will be coming out with a new book next month entitled So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed. As one of my classmates has pointed out in a previous blog post, social media is increasingly being used as a forum for public shaming; a ‘digital mob’, so to speak. Ronson was also interviewed in this […]
The ‘Reddit exodus’
Currently in the news: “… In a strange twist that perfectly illustrates the current culture-wide debate around online speech, a group of disgruntled users have begun an exodus off the site — claiming, against all odds, that Reddit is censoring them as a matter of corporate policy.” There is also a Gawker news article that expands […]