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What the iPad means

09-Mar-10

Books in the Age of the iPad, by Craig Mod, is perhaps the most beautiful and thoughtful post I’ve read in years. In it, Mod argues that the iPad is a universal container for rich media and what he calls “well-formed content”— I’ll let you read the article (you should) to understand what he means. He [...]

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Bigger, Faster, Easier

26-Feb-10

“Yes, today you can chat with friends, collaborate on projects, read the news, play games, or share videos of your kids, all online. But you could do all that stuff offline before 1991. It’s just much easier and faster now. What’s different—what’s fundamentally different—is the size of your social space, and of course the size of [...]

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Kids these Days

18-Feb-10

(I started this as a reply to John Thomson’s post “Blogging no longer a hit with teens, but quickly realized that it’s less about what kids don’t do —blogging— and more about what they do —social networking.)
They don’t email.
They don’t tweet.
And now they don’t blog?
What *do* they do?
From the Pew report:

73% of wired American teens now use social [...]

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Better Blogging Workshop

03-Feb-10

The UW-Madison Writing Center has a blogging workshop: “Productive and Professional Blogging” — I’m going.
I’ve been pretty open about the ideas floating around in my head since an incident in my undergrad years when a group of colleagues realized we’d been thinking the same thing, but each thought s/he was the only one. Blogging has [...]

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My iPad Thoughts (e-Napkin)

02-Feb-10

I helped slow the web last week by hitting refresh on a number of live blogs during the unveiling of the iPad. The hype and expectations had been almost overwhelming, and pretty much anything that Jobs could have unveiled would have caused some to bemoan the lack of *something*. Here’s my take: it’s a nice [...]

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CFP: GLS 6.0 Conference

29-Jan-10

June 9-11, 2010 Madison, WI
CALL FOR PAPERS
The time has never been more right for the Games+Learning+Society Conference! The world is finally beginning to catch on: Great videogames can be great learning tools. This year’s conference will further the work we started six years ago, exploring the impact of games and game culture on learning and [...]

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2010 Kaiser Report blames Mobile

23-Jan-10

GENERATION M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds
A Kaiser Family Foundation Study. JANUARY 2010
My post headline is purposefully… what’s the word? Inflammatory? Because this report is significant and important, and heralds in a much larger message beyond the report’s main point that “Kids are consuming more media.”
It’s this important:

When the printing press was [...]

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ICQI presentation: Mobile Game Narrative

22-May-09

The title was “New Narratives in Mobile Gaming”
Here’s the 3.7MB PDFof the presentation I gave for the 2009 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. It went well. The audience seemed engaged.
In it, I introduced my work in place-based games, explain how the “Mystery Trip” game was adapted to fit the structure of a Flying Moose Lodge [...]

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Dissertation Copy

21-May-09

I defended my dissertation yesterday. The committee seemed uncertain, but must have given me a break because it was my birthday. I am now officially over-educated. Submitting applications to Union Cab this afternoon…
A number of people have asked, so here is an unofficial DRAFT version of my dissertation: [2MB pdf].
I hope others can learn from this [...]