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How Virtual Worlds are Reshaping India's Culture - Pixels and Policy - 1 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 01 Nov 09 - Cached
  • In other words, workers raised on the ethic of possibility inherent in virtual worlds won't sit around and listen to government excuses for why education is poor, infant mortality is high, and jobs are scarce. As companies like IBM begin to offer call center jobs in virtual worlds, many Indians are leaving the traditional office in favor of the comfort of their homes. The status quo simply won't suffice anymore.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 01 Nov 09
       
      Maybe so - but I'm not sold until someone can document real world effects of deprived Indians hanging out in Second Life.
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Thoughts on gaming and learning | TechTicker - 1 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 01 Oct 09 - Cached
  • These sorts of enviroments are a fascinating phenomenon to me, not necessarily from the standpoint of the environments themselves, or the experiences they help facilitate, but with the degree of engagement, dedication and time investment that people willingly and independently put into them.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 01 Oct 09
       
      I concur - this has always been my main driver of interest in gaming and education - the sheer energy, focus, and ingenuity people will invest in games.
  • why the obsession with delineating where learning stops and open-ended fun begins? Why must there be a distiction?
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 01 Oct 09
       
      My mantra: learning IS fun (i.e.there is no distinction)
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The Wired Campus - U. of Texas System Buys Land in Second Life - The Chronicle of Highe... - 0 views

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  • The University of Texas system has purchased land in the online world Second Life, betting the investment will improve teaching and research at all of its institutions. The university system, made up of nine universities and six health centers, doesn’t have concrete plans for how each school will use Second Life. It hopes that administrators, faculty members, researchers, and students will take advantage of the virtual real estate over the academic year.
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MMO Monopoly launched on Google | Gaming Ghouls - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 09 Sep 09 - Cached
  • A new way to play Monopoly will be launched today on Google; Monopoly City Streets is a MMO where players use Google Maps as the game board to buy up property and try to become the richest one of your friends. The game is supposed to be launching today however at the time of writing this the site has not gone live.
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Cyber Nations, an online nation simulation game - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 07 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Ed Webb on 07 Sep 09
     
    Lots of fun, once you get into the down & dirty politics.
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With video games, public diplomacy by mobile phone - SmartPlanet - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 26 Aug 09 - Cached
  • MetroStar Systems, a 75-employee tech start-up contracted by the State Department to bring a better understanding of the United States to the countries with which it has less-than-amicable relations. The company plans to do so with X-Life Games, an initiative that effectively wraps a U.S. history lesson inside a downloadable video game for a mobile phone.
  • The products of this initiative — so far, “Driven,” a car-racing trivia game, and “Babangar Blues,” a music-based role-playing game — are intended to “demystify” the U.S. to foreign audiences, starting with the Middle East.
  • Ironically, the trivia very much resembles the test administered to new citizens. I asked Manouchehri if it was really fair to expect an Iranian to know who Patrick Henry was. “The hope is that they’ll look them up,” he said.
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  • the State Department gathers and receives behavioral data that helps it track “macro behavioral trends,” particularly among the Generation Y demographic MetroStar is targeting, born between 1981 and 2000.
  • Manouchehri is looking at deploying his mobile games in Pakistan, Iran, Iraq and the United Arab Emirates, as well as in nations with more mature telecom networks, such as Egypt, Indonesia and Lebanon.
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Meedan | Iranian gamers head to Europe to... - 0 views

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  • Iran's government-run Press TV says: Titles produced by Iranian videogames companies include an Iran-Iraq war tank shooter, a platform adventure set in Persia, an adventure game where you play the role of a girl called Sara, a young student caught up in events during the early stages of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, and a role-playing game based on Iranian mythology called the Age of the Braves.
    • Ed Webb
      Ed Webb on 24 Aug 09
       
      Heard Vit Sisler talking about some of these at a workshop on Iranian media earlier this year. If they ever do become available in the West, could be a very useful teaching tool, whether for Middle East Studies classes or for analyzing video games as rhetoric.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Battling swine flu in cyberspace - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 13 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Dubbed "The Great Flu", the game is based on the threat that the emergence of a new flu virus and its rapid spread across the globe would pose to humanity. "The game is based on the need to increase public awareness to the threat posed by a pandemic and the measures in place to contain it," said Albert Osterhaus, head of virology at the Erasmus Medical Centre and one of the experts involved in creating the game.
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`Champions' to unleash virtual heroes and foes - Yahoo! News - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 07 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Launching next month, the new massively multiplayer online role-playing game "Champions Online" will let gamers create their own virtual superheroes.
  • "One of the things I like about having the `Champions' universe to play with is that players don't know what to expect," he said. "So they get to explore. They get to build, and they get to become the important heroes in the world, as opposed to having to live in the shadows of iconic characters that they've known and been reading about forever."
  • the hairy beast organically spawns in the game's Monster Island enclave and can only be taken down with a team of other superheroes.
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  • players can try to stop their adversary solo or invite other players to assist in throwing him in The Stronghold, a supervillain prison located in the game's virtual desert.
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バンダイ【ツッツキバコ】公式サイト - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 04 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Ed Webb on 04 Aug 09
     
    Game as prosthetic - stick your finger in to manipulate the virtual finger. See also discussion at http://schulzeandwebb.com/blog/2009/07/30/preparing-us-for-ar-the-value-of-illustrating-of-future-technologies/
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Вне зоны комфорта - Fallout 2009 «Ничто человеческое» - 0 views

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  • Ed Webb on 16 Jul 09
     
    Fallout 2 ARG - fun!
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Serious Gaming and Simulations - the Power and Potential for Peacebuilders | United Sta... - 0 views

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shared by Ed Webb on 15 Jul 09 - Cached
  • Ed Webb on 15 Jul 09
     
    Shalom Staub spotted this - may be of interest to some of the group
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