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‘Watch Dogs’ as presented by Ubisoft at E3 They kept it a secret until some days ago. I am not closely following the coverage of ↑this year’s E3, but from what I read it seems that a lot of … Continue reading →
‘Watch Dogs’ as presented by Ubisoft at E3 They kept it a secret until some days ago. I am not closely following the coverage of ↑this year’s E3, but from what I read it seems that a lot of … Continue reading →
The ideas and practices of Artificial Life research, and the interactions between these ideas and practices, are the topics of this thesis. How can the study of life, which ALife researchers see as pregiven by Darwinian evolution, be combined with … Continue reading →
Jenny Ryan is on a quest “to explore the nature of computer-mediated communication, online social networking, notions of public and private in the virtual realm, the global impact of new interactive information technologies, narrative, alternative conceptions of embodiment in … Continue reading →
The moment he emerged from the water in full 3D glory his equipment at once reminded me of the ↵industrial tribal art, and I already liked the movie. The majority of the critics’ reviews paints a less favorable picture, though. … Continue reading →
Online life is usually held to present particular problems for ethnography as it is hidden and ambiguous, and boundaries are not clear. However, ethnography and online daily life are similar procedures in which people go about constructing ‘culture’ to make … Continue reading →
After elaborating on methodological concerns and before delving into detailed analysis of the representational politics in selected cyberpop examples, it is important to situate the objects of this book in their cultural context. Chapter 2 is an overview of several … Continue reading →
Anthropology is very much concerned with the representation not only of its findings, but with what it looks upon: cultures. The whole Writing-Culture debate and everything in its wake revolves around this. It triggered new experimental means of mediating … Continue reading →
Neal Stephenson’s second generation cyberpunk masterpiece “↵The Diamond Age“ (1995) is set in a time when the political system of nation states long has collapsed. Tribal organizational forms have taken the latters place. Maybe to clearly distinguish his literary … Continue reading →
Since a month there’s a new blog on the block, concerned with exploring “↑Second Life“ (SL): ↑Second Life Conceptual by Gaynor Gritzi, Who seems especially interested in seizing the inworld heights. The latest post reports about ↑flying a jet-pack … Continue reading →