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Krista S

Project Massive : The Social and Psychological Impact of Online Gaming - 0 views

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online escapism motivations

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  • Further, the re- sults indicate that participation in online gaming can lead to decreased isolation and en- hanced social integration for those players who use online gaming as a medium in which to spend time and interact with real life friends and relatives.
  • The average adult spends 4 hours per day (or 28 hours weekly) watching television (A.C. Neilsen, 2001). Average weekly video game play is estimated at 7.6 hours (ESA, 2004). It is reported that people who play massively multi- player online games do so for an average of 15 hours per week; however, weekly usage of 30 hours or more is not uncommon
  • It is assumed that 10% of online game players are addicted to the activ- ity, an extrapolation from the ABCNEWS.com survey finding that 10% of all users of the internet are addicted to it
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  • Killers are characterized by what Bartle refers to as a desire to impose themselves on the play experience of others. Most often this is done by killing other players for the joy of
  • “knowing that a real person, somewhere, is very upset by what you've just done, yet can themselves do nothing about it.” Killers are commonly referred to as “griefers” and their actions as “grief play” given their orientation toward annoying and aggravating others.
Gideon Burton

HASTAC | Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory - 0 views

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digital humanities online learning portal new media

shared by Gideon Burton on 22 May 10 - Cached
  • Gideon Burton on 22 May 10
     
    HASTAC ("haystack") is a very important initiative in the digital humanities, including blogs, contests, projects, and people who are engaged in the cutting edge of moving literature and learning into the digital age.
Weiye Loh

Asymptote: Literary Encounters Between Languages and Cultures  | the kent rid... - 0 views

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Language Translation

shared by Weiye Loh on 20 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Asymptote is a new, international literary journal dedicated to the translation of literary works, both from various languages to English as well as from English to other languages. It was founded by our very own Singaporean writer, Lee Yew Leong, whose editorial team spans various continents and cultures – South Asia, the Middle East, Europe, America and East Asia – and is a veritable international, multi-cultural and multilingual task force.
  • A ‘classic’ metaphor comes from the Italian – “traduttore, traditore”, which means “translator, traitor”. My teacher had written this phrase on the board in my first translation class, demonstrating her (rather cynical) philosophical stance on the whole project of translation – something is always ‘lost in translation’, and the translator necessarily interferes in this gap of meaning guided her own bias, conscious or unconscious, political or philosophical.
  • In philosophy classes my charismatic and wildly esoteric professor once railed on about the possibility (or impossibility) of commensuration between various little narratives ( petits récits ), given the rejection of ‘modernist’ grand or meta-narratives. But translation, he declared dramatically, the possibility of translation hints at the possibility of commensurability between the little narratives. In his view, little narratives were understood as discrete cultures (Japanese, Iranian, Russian) and inter-cultural communication (and consequent kindness and friendliness amongst humankind) is only possible if translation is possible.
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  • The Asymptote raison d’être is much more optimistic than my translation teacher’s stance, and much less abstruse than that of my philosophy professor’s. The editors write, “We are interested in encounters between languages and the consequences of these encounters. Though a translation may never fully replicate the original in effect (thus our name, “asymptote”: the dotted line on a graph that a mathematical function may tend towards but never reach), it is in itself an act of creation. … The value of translation is that it unleashes from latency ideas and emotions to a vast sea of others who do not have access to the language in which these ideas and emotions reside.”
  • With the asymptote, the y-axis and the x-axis will never get lonely, pairing off into the infinite distance and the distant infinity; the original text and its companion translations proliferate in the blinker-free world wide net, reaching a broader readership and our earthly community grows closer with a shared cache of stories, tales, imaginations.
  • In addition, “[n]ot only will [Asymptote] display work in its original language after the English translation, [but they] also encourage translators (especially of poems) to provide audio recordings of the original work so that the reader has access as well to the sounds of that language, via a “Press PLAY” audio option whenever such an MP3 recording is available.” This project straddles cultures, languages as well as media – writing, audio and even visual
  • Weiye Loh on 20 Feb 11
     
    Koh Choon Hwee
Bri Zabriskie

Make your own book. Make it great. - 2 views

www.blurb.com

shared by Bri Zabriskie on 27 May 11 - Cached
  • Bri Zabriskie on 27 May 11
     
    a friends idea for creating an ebbok. It looks more like a scrapbooking site. I don't know how legitimate we'd be using something like this or if it even fits our project, Just one of my friends suggestions.. .  See my post about ebook formating concerns
Ashley Nelson

Journeys: Building Bridges - 0 views

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blog google docs

shared by Ashley Nelson on 12 May 11 - No Cached
  • Ashley Nelson on 12 May 11
     
    This is someone's blog about doing the things that we are doing in class. She is using facebook, google docs, skype, and other social networks to connect and to collaborate on projects. Cool huh?
Weiye Loh

It's Okay to "Forget" What You Read - The Polymath Project - Medium - 0 views

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Reading Memory Books

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  • Weiye Loh on 02 Sep 17
     
    ""Reading and experience train your model of the world. And even if you forget the experience or what you read, its effect on your model of the world persists. Your mind is like a compiled program you've lost the source of. It works, but you don't know why.""
jardinejn

An Introduction to Internet Governance by Jovan Kurbulija - 0 views

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internet history socio-cultural aspects of the internet digital divide online intellectual property

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  • jardinejn on 01 Jun 10
     
    Goes over the development of the internet and laws and issues to do with consumer safety online
  • jardinejn on 01 Jun 10
     
    It's a 196 page book and covers a lot. I recommend looking through the table of contents to see if it relates to your project.
Neal C

Every Hug, Every Fuss - Scientists Record Families' Daily Lives - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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data collection archiving gender roles families

shared by Neal C on 24 May 10 - Cached
  • Mothers still do most of the housework, spending 27 percent of their time on it, on average, compared with 18 percent for fathers and 3 percent for children (giving an allowance made no difference).
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      Neal C on 24 May 10
       
      ungrateful kids
  • the U.C.L.A. project was an effort to capture a relatively new sociological species: the dual-earner, multiple-child, middle-class American household. The investigators have just finished working through the 1,540 hours of videotape, coding and categorizing every hug, every tantrum, every soul-draining search for a missing soccer cleat.
  • One researcher roamed the house with a handheld computer, noting each family member’s location and activities at 10-minute intervals.
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  • puter, noting each family mem
  • Neal C on 24 May 10
     
    This is an interesting article about the way new methods of documentation and archiving allow researchers to collect and code more data than ever before - a "reality TV" paradigm.
Amanda Giles

Executive Summary | Pew Internet & American Life Project - 0 views

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identity reality

shared by Amanda Giles on 24 May 10 - Cached
  • Only 6% of the adult population has no one with whom they can discuss important matters or who they consider to be “especially significant” in their life.
  • contrary to the considerable concern that people’s use of the internet and cell phones could be tied to the trend towards smaller networks, we find that ownership of a mobile phone and participation in a variety of internet activities are associated with larger and more diverse core discussion networks. (Discussion networks are a key measure of people’s most important social ties.)
  • Amanda Giles on 24 May 10
     
    Social networking decreases social isolation.
Sarah Eeee

Dissent Magazine - Arguing The World - Are English Departments Killing the Humanities? - - 0 views

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shared by Sarah Eeee on 10 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • The focus of this post is not the thousand-and-one times told tale of how the corporatization of the university and state divestment from higher education has had a particularly disastrous impact upon humanities departments
  • We can treat these realities as facts to be taken for granted.
  • We might wonder if there are conditions of intellectual deprivation for which the institutional structures governing the humanities are partly to blame.
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  • For Arnoldians, literature would play the cultural role once occupied by religion, with beauty civilizing the modern individual.
  • The avatar of that attitude was Harvard’s Douglas Bush, who speaking in 1944 identified the cultural tradition running from the ancient Greeks through Milton as “that heritage for which the war has been fought.”
  • To put it another way, the English department currently labors under a deep paradox: it devotes much of its intellectual energy to declaring the limits of Anglo-American culture while being structurally wedded to that culture in a way that necessarily privileges it.
  • At the risk of being impolite, I will be pointed about their implications: this is not a progressive program of higher education, but is in fact a perniciously anti-progressive one. It confirms the casual undergraduate presupposition that nothing occurring before 1980 is of real significance, that the free market is the culmination of the human desire for liberty, and that digital fora for blather are now fundamental to meditations on our role in the universe.
  • In its youth it promised an education in literature without the hard work of learning languages, much to the dismay of classicists. In its middle age it offered a stripped-down version of philosophy under the banner of critical theory, an intrusion that philosophers bore with Stoic calm. Now in its senescence, the English department is being beaten by communications at its own game of watering down curriculum and reducing humanist traditions to what today’s adolescent will find—to use the favorite malapropism of the text-messaging generation—“relatable.”
  • In an age more forthright in its bigotries, Irving Babbitt advocated a New Humanism that readily embraced a meritocracy of learning. The humanitarian, in Babbitt’s phrase, “has sympathy for mankind in the lump,” where a humanist “is interested in the perfecting of the individual.” The return to the classics, or to great texts traditionally conceived, never seems in my mind fully to dispense with such patrician sensibilities.
  • The humanities programs of the next century might rather be structured around “world humanisms.” In such programs the phrase “great texts” would evoke the Bhagavad Gita every bit as much as it does The Iliad. The learning of at least one world language would be required, be it Arabic, French, or Mandarin. At its center would be neither the vernacular nor an artificially constructed “Western tradition.”
  • Instead it would explore on their own terms, and in their rich cross-fertilization, millenia of world traditions offering insight on the relationships between individual and society; on our ethical obligations to our fellow beings, human and non-human; and on flourishing and justice.
  • An example of a “world humanisms” approach is suggested by a conference that I recently attended in Istanbul, which brought together philosophers and theologians from North America and Turkey. One of the many rich portraits that emerged was of first-century Alexandria, where the Neoplatonism of the Jewish philosopher Philo directly influenced the early Christians Clement and Origen, as well as laying the foundations of Islamic philosophy through al-Kindi and al-Farabi. We are blinded to the study of this kind of influence by a focus on “Western Civilization” that favors Athens and Rome to Alexandria and treats Origen only as a precursor to Saint Augustine, that supposed inventor of an exclusively Christian syncretism between philosophy and theology.
  • Our task as humanists of the twenty-first century is to make those long and deep traditions visible, and to do so in the teeth of those forces that would strip them away, be those forces technological, commercial, political, or intellectual.
  • Sarah Eeee on 10 Jan 11
     
    An alternate take on the "future of the humanities" argument. This author proposes a revamped sort of literature study incorporating modern languages and a fervently international approach to literature, thought, and culture.
  • Sarah Eeee on 10 Jan 11
     
    This one skirts the edges of the digital humanities, by proposing a vision of future literature study. Explicitly digital projects could be useful for finding the international connections this author calls for.
Ashley Lewis

I-Search Project - 1 views

edtechteacher.org/isearch.html

technology research

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  • Ashley Lewis on 26 May 11
     
    Sound familiar?
Sam McGrath

YouTube - Tweet "Ulysses" On Bloomsday June 16, 2011 - 0 views

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twitter crowdsourcing James Joyce ulysses remix

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  • Sam McGrath on 28 May 11
     
    James Joyce's Ulysses will be tweeted by a large number of participants in the crowd on Bloomsday June 16. Follow the project @11ysses
Rachael Schiel

Smashwords blog - 2 views

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ebook project digitization

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  • Rachael Schiel on 31 May 11
     
    Stats about who reads ebooks.
Rachael Schiel

Kindle vs. Nook vs. iPad: Which e-book reader should you buy? | Crave - CNET - 0 views

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kindle ereader nook e-book ebook digitization project

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  • Rachael Schiel on 31 May 11
     
    Good stats and arguments.
Gideon Burton

Project Information Literacy: A large-scale study about early adults and their research... - 0 views

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literacy education informationliteracy

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  • Gideon Burton on 18 May 11
     
    A recent initiative to see how college students seek information in their everyday lives. Includes surveys, interviews, and research in progress.
Aly Rutter

Lessig's "Rootstrikers" Project - 0 views

rootstrikers.org

Remix Lawrence Lessig Rootstrikers

shared by Aly Rutter on 09 May 11 - No Cached
  • Aly Rutter on 09 May 11
     
    Website dedicated to helping people tell stories about how their lives have been corrupted by the government
Bri Zabriskie

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain: Chapter 1 - 0 views

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huckleberry finn book literature online

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  • Bri Zabriskie on 11 May 11
     
    How I'm going to read Huckleberry Finn novel (or attempt to at least)
Weiye Loh

Balderdash: Anne Rice on writing about Others - 0 views

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Writing Cultural Appropriation

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  • Weiye Loh on 29 Oct 17
     
    "The bottom line is, you go where the intensity is for you as a writer; you give birth to characters for deep, complex reasons. And this should never be politicized by anyone. Your challenge is to do a fine and honest and effective job. Don't ever let anyone insist you give up without even trying. Two of the greatest novels about women that I've ever read, Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary were written by men. One of the finest novels about men that I've ever read, The Last of the Wine, was written by a woman. That was Mary Renault. And her novel, The Persian Boy, about a Persian eunuch is a classic. The vital literature we possess today was created by men and women of immense imagination, personal courage and personal drive. Ignore all attempts to politicize or police your imagination and your literary ambition."
  • sivernores on 26 Jan 22
     
    It's actually pretty cool, and I found out about a lot of interesting literature on a number of subjects, including geography. I discovered an cheap essay writing service https://order.studentshare.org/ , which you may peruse, study, and, of course, strive to improve as much as possible. I already know that these articles are superb, and that you will gain a lot from them, both academically and in terms of your personal development in this or that field.
  • janejlocane on 17 Aug 22
     
    To write even an ordinary essay is not enough effort. And at the university there are quite voluminous tasks. So I decided to turn for help with capstone project https://www.capstoneproject.net/ and my dissertation. I can imagine if I was given the task to write a book. It would be a nightmare. I wouldn't have done it.
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