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Hongge Ren

#1ReasonWhy You Should Be Worried About Gender Equality in the Game Industry! - 0 views

www.forbes.com/...-equality-in-the-game-industry

equality video games

shared by Hongge Ren on 29 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Hongge Ren on 29 Apr 13
     
    On Novemeber 27, Luke Crane asked why there are so few "lady game creators?" The hashtag #1Reasonwhy exploded on twitter. Now folks are tweeting en masse about gender injustices in the game industry. In this post from Forbes contributor Carol Pinchefsky, I learned that 88 percent of the game industry's employees [...]
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

The economics of video games - 2 views

www.washingtonpost.com/...the-economics-of-video-games

shared by Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 01 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 01 Oct 12
     
    ""For all intents and purposes, this is an economy that has activity equal to a small country in real life," Guðmundsson says. "There's nothing 'virtual' about this world.""
Tracy Tan

History in Leeds, then maths in California; The internet has opened up a huge new world... - 0 views

(Restricted access article, so I'm posting it here.) I found what was said about 'engaging online learning experiences' very insightful: "It must be a well ordered, curated experience that underst...

online learning curating

started by Tracy Tan on 27 Mar 12 no follow-up yet
Katerina Manoff

School leavers given 'de-text' lessons to speak the language business needs; Social med... - 2 views

I've been reading a lot about this trend - I think it's equally prevalent in the US. I wonder how much of it is caused by our move away from school as preparation for career to school as a place fo...

social media text-speak sms language poor skills

started by Tracy Tan on 29 Feb 12 1 follow-up, last by Katerina Manoff on 03 Mar 12
Parisa Rouhani

No fair! Why your brain hates inequities - Behavior- msnbc.com - 0 views

www.msnbc.msn.com/...health-behavior

brain activity equity fair

shared by Parisa Rouhani on 25 Feb 10 - No Cached
  • people prefer a level playing field,
  • Our study shows that the brain doesn’t just reflect self-interested goals, but instead, these basic reward processing regions of the brain seem to be affected by social information
  • humans are attuned to inequality, and we just don't like it.
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  • The researchers monitored signals in the striatum and prefrontal cortex , parts of the brain thought to be involved in how people evaluate rewards. They found that the brain activity in these areas was greater for the "rich" subjects when money was transferred to the other player than to themselves, whereas the "poor" subjects' brains showed the opposite pattern
  • n other words, everyone seemed to prefer a financial equality.
  • these regions were responding most when the outcome would be the most fair,
  • Parisa Rouhani on 25 Feb 10
     
    research shows that people prefer equity in situations. fairness affects one's emotions about a situation
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