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Virtual girl 'Sweetie' helps track thousands of online sexual predators | euronews, wor... - 0 views

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    The use of a computer simulation to trap sexual predators. Raises all sorts of questions.
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Games evangelists and naysayers - 0 views

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    A skeptical look at the claims about the positive effects of gaming. Perhaps games can't change the world after all?
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Why Online Games Are Dictatorships - InformationWeek - 0 views

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    Can you truly be a citizen of a virtual world?
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Game cultures - 0 views

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    An interesting piece on the emergent culture(s) of gaming.
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Oculus was the future of gaming. Now it's the future of Facebook. - Boing Boing - 0 views

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    Crowd funding of VR system Oculus leads to huge purchase by Facebook. Interesting to think about the various debates connected to this: the relationship between crowd sourcing and corporate control, the different imaginaries connected with VR technologies and so on.
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Are Exclamation Marks Killing Us With Kindness? : Discovery News - 0 views

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    How texting has helped to transform the English language!!!
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Game developers as brutalized industrial attention-farmers: a look back from tomorrow -... - 0 views

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    An alternative view on the civilizational role of gaming...
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The digital anthropologist: Danah Boyd interview - Telegraph - 0 views

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    Interview with Danah Boyd, a digital anthropologist
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The First National Bank of GameStop - 0 views

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    Not sure if this article necessarily belongs in digital anthropology but it's an intriguing way of getting around the banking sector by using a type of virtual commodity, the pre-ordered game.
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Why We Post - UCL (University College London) - 0 views

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  • Jovan Maud on 04 Mar 16
     
    Here is a really exciting looking MOOC (online course) about the anthropology of social media use. Anyone interested in doing it?
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