Dead Space 2 and the value of multiple simultaneous perspectives

April 18 Comments Off on Dead Space 2 and the value of multiple simultaneous perspectives Category: Feed, HackText

By integrating choice and multiple user-controlled viewpoints into the game, Dead Space 2 provides a refreshing alternative to traditional video game cut scenes

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Learn your culture, remix culture

February 07 Comments Off on Learn your culture, remix culture Category: Feed, HackText

If you haven’t been watching Kirby Ferguson’s excellent Everything is a Remix videos, here’s a quick collection and some links to the excellent documentary. We often talk about remixed media as if it were something new to our culture. However, in these extremely informative videos Ferguson traces the modern remix back to 1961.

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Requiem for a Geek: The Social Network is good news for Zuckerberg

October 06 Comments Off on Requiem for a Geek: The Social Network is good news for Zuckerberg Category: Feed, HackText

Amid the controversy around Facebook user settings, privacy violations and monetization, The Social Network humanizes Facebook’s founder and, like it or not, Zuckerberg should count this as a win. Image via CrunchBase I’m not going to go into much detail about why The Social Network is an excellent movie (and it is) but trust me, […]

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