Best content in Writing about Literature in the Digital Age

1More

Tour: Research | Diigo - 1 views

shared by Gideon Burton on 18 May 10 - Cached

10More

6 Maps of Digital Desires: Exploring the Topography of Gender and Play in Online Games - 1 views

74.125.155.132/scholar online escapism motivations gender identity

shared by Krista S on 02 Jun 10 - No Cached

Women in many MMOs perceive the game culture rather than the game mechanics to be the primary deterrent to poten- tial female gamers
...

Cancel
On average, respondents spend twenty-two hours each week in an MMO. The median was twenty hours per week—the equivalent of half a workweek. There were no significant gender or age differences in usage patterns; players over the age of forty play on average just as much as players under the age of twenty
...

Cancel
While about 27 percent of female players were introduced to the game by a romantic partner, only 1 percent of male players were introduced in this way.
...

Cancel
...7 more annotations...
Overall, about 25 percent of players play an MMO with their romantic partner. Female players are more likely to be playing with a romantic partner than male players (see figure 6.1). About two- thirds of female gamers are playing with a romantic partner, while less than one-fifth of male gamers are
...

Cancel
Men are allowed relatively free access to online games, but a woman’s presence in an online game is seen as legitimate only if it occurs via a relationship with a man.
...

Cancel
It isn’t the case that women play only for socializing or that men play only to kill monsters. On the other hand, there are gender differences in these self-identified motivations. Male players score higher in the Advancement, Mechanics, and Competition motivations, while female players score higher in the Relationship and Customization motivations. There were very small or no gender differences in the other five motivations—Socializing, Teamwork, Discovery, Role-Playing, and Escapism.
...

Cancel
In a recent survey, I asked female gamers about what they saw as potential deterrents to female gamers in the MMO they played. Almost every respondent cited the proportions and clothing options of the female avatars as problematic.
...

Cancel
To a certain extent, this encourages players to think about women as token spectacles rather than actual players.
...

Cancel
More important, many female players have learned that it is danger- ous to reveal your real-life gender in MMOs because they will be branded as incompetent and constantly propositioned; In other words, they must either accept the male-subject position silently, or risk constant discrimination and harassment if they reveal that they are female
...

Cancel
Also, there are very few other places (in physical or virtual worlds) where high-school students are collaborating with professors, retired war veterans, and stay-at-home moms
...

Cancel

2More

Social Networks Spread Defiance Online - 1 views

www.markmfredrickson.com/...nytimes-iran-twitter.pdf Social-Networking

shared by Audrey B on 21 May 10 - No Cached

Audrey B on 21 May 10

As the embattled government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appears to be trying to limit Internet access and communications in Iran, new kinds of social media are challenging those traditional levers of state media control and allowing Iranians to find novel ways around the restrictions.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">As the embattled government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appears to be trying to limit Internet access and communications in Iran, new kinds of social media are challenging those traditional levers of state media control and allowing Iranians to find novel ways around the restrictions.</div>

...

Cancel
Chris Anderson on 21 May 10

Interestingly, Pakistan is having these same issues right now: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/south_asia/10130195.stm What I think is interesting is the clashing conceptions of what free speech constitutes and how these social media is forcing those who are used to a more totalitarian view to think about the overarching issue

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Interestingly, Pakistan is having these same issues right now: <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/south_asia/10130195.stm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/south_asia/10130195.stm</a> What I think is interesting is the clashing conceptions of what free speech constitutes and how these social media is forcing those who are used to a more totalitarian view to think about the overarching issue</div>

...

Cancel

1More

Publishing Guide - eBooks - Authorhouse.com - 1 views

www.authorhouse.com/LP04F01C033.aspx eboks publishing

shared by Gideon Burton on 31 May 11 - No Cached

1More

Diigo Tutorials - 1 views

www.google.com/...BDRqfSgoQquKe8MMj social bookmarking diigo tutorial

shared by Gideon Burton on 18 May 10 - Cached

2More

American Technological Sublime - Google Books - 1 views

books.google.com/books sublime technological american

shared by Katherine H on 02 Jun 10 - Cached

2More

Sexual Identity Online - M/Cyclopedia of New Media - 1 views

wiki.media-culture.org.au/...Sexual_Identity_Online

shared by becca_hay on 19 May 10 - Cached

Specifically, the opportunity for exaggerated, unreal portrayals of self lead many to question the validity of substantial, and truthful online interaction. As Jordan (1999: 88) argues, â€œâ€¦identity fluidity supports the masquerades and experiments of avatarsâ€¦the ability to change gender, the ability to contact expertsâ€¦â€?. In the physical world, such social experiments as playing with the alternation of gender or creating a completely different social background for the purpose of research, become far more complex and are less likely to occur. Alternatively, the Internet offers its users the potential to explore identity more easily and often most importantly, the ability to do so, anonymously.
- becca_hay on 19 May 10
  
  This digital masking can be compared with the actual costuming of actors in the transvestite theater. This is a test run using diigo
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This digital masking can be compared with the actual costuming of actors in the transvestite theater. This is a test run using diigo</div>
  
  ...
  
  Cancel
...

Cancel

9More

BBC NEWS | Technology | Berners-Lee on the read/write web - 1 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...4132752.stm web2.0 Berners-Lee communication

shared by Ben M on 19 May 10 - Cached

Well in some ways. The idea was that anybody who used the web would have a space where they could write and so the first browser was an editor, it was a writer as well as a reader. Every person who used the web had the ability to write something. It was very easy to make a new web page and comment on what somebody else had written, which is very much what blogging is about.
...

Cancel
For years I had been trying to address the fact that the web for most people wasn't a creative space; there were other editors, but editing web pages became difficult and complicated for people. What happened with blogs and with wikis, these editable web spaces, was that they became much more simple. When you write a blog, you don't write complicated hypertext, you just write text, so I'm very, very happy to see that now it's gone in the direction of becoming more of a creative medium.
...

Cancel
I feel that we need to individually work on putting good things on it, finding ways to protect ourselves from accidentally finding the bad stuff, and that at the end of the day, a lot of the problems of bad information out there, things that you don't like, are problems with humanity.
- Heather D on 19 May 10
  
  This reminds me of how I think the Church uses these tools. Yes, the internet can be used for not-so-good things...but ultimately, it can be used and is meant to be used to expand the Church's work.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This reminds me of how I think the Church uses these tools. Yes, the internet can be used for not-so-good things...but ultimately, it can be used and is meant to be used to expand the Church's work.</div>
  
  ...
  
  Cancel
...

Cancel
...2 more annotations...
My hope is that it'll be very positive in bringing people together around the planet, because it'll make communication between different countries more possible.
- Ben M on 26 May 10
  
  Reminds me of Robert and his ham radio friends all over the world
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Reminds me of Robert and his ham radio friends all over the world</div>
  
  ...
  
  Cancel
...

Cancel
building of something very new and special,
- Ben M on 26 May 10
  
  a cathedral!
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">a cathedral!</div>
  
  ...
  
  Cancel
...

Cancel

Gideon Burton on 19 May 10

The man who launched the very first website talks about the way blogs and wikis have realized his initial vision of the web as a space for participatory creativity (and writing in particular)

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The man who launched the very first website talks about the way blogs and wikis have realized his initial vision of the web as a space for participatory creativity (and writing in particular)</div>

...

Cancel