Spiegel online since yesterday carries a ↑follow-up to the events behind the ↵MMOG-related ↵homicide in China. The author Christian Stöcker nicely links the ‘dragon sabre murder’ with recent ongoings concerning ‘computergames violence’ issues: Hillary Rodham Clinton seems to appropriate the … Continue reading →
There is something new: A globe about the size of a grapefruit, a perfectly detailed rendition of Planet Earth, hanging in space at arm’s length in front of his eyes. Hiro has heard about this but never seen it It … Continue reading →
No time to test it today, but tomorrow I surely will. My machine copes with ↵HL2, so hopefully it will cope with the recently released ↑NASA World Wind 1.3: “World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place … Continue reading →
Quite a time ago, while drinking beer at a party organised by our students, I told a fellow anthropologist about game-items from Everquest being sold at ebay (see e.g. Castronova ↵2001 and ↵2003). All I harvested was an amused smile … Continue reading →
Enid Gabrielle ‘Biella’ Coleman is a graduate student in ↵cultural anthropology at the University of Chicago. Currently she writes her PhD thesis on the ethical dynamics and political implications of the Free and Open Source movement. Her fieldwork, which mainly … Continue reading →
This ↑BBC story would be a hell of a lot easier to judge, if it had been published tomorrow: “Brain chip reads man’s thoughts A paralysed man in the US has become the first person to be fitted with a … Continue reading →
Games without frontiers—war without tears Computer games as a sociocultural phenomenon In Germany a new academic book on computergames is in the making. Here is an excerpt from the ↑call for papers: As a rule Computer games remain to be … Continue reading →
The call for papers for the ↑Cyberspace 2005 Conference has been released: Paper abstracts are solicited for submission to the following workshops of III. International Conference Cyberspace 2005: 1) e-government, e-justice 2) philosophy and sociology of cyberspace 3) psychology and … Continue reading →
So, you never knew where to find the courses on the really hot topics—Aaron Delwiche maintains a list of ↑ Games-related Syllabi on the Web, and a list of ↑ Courses in Cyberculture. Especially ↑ Claudia A. Engel‘s course on … Continue reading →
“The ↑ DGI [Digital Genres Initiative] is a loosely organized network of fellow-thinking intellectuals, academics, and computer geeks. The goal of the DGI is to spur debate and thinking about the way that digital technology allows us to think and … Continue reading →