Posts Tagged “gaming”
Webtwitch Wednesday
by Diana on January 13, 2010
Blogging hiatus is now over and what better way to get back in the saddle again than to start with a Webtwitch Wednesday post! Big news today: Google says: Sorry China, we will not be kowtowing to you any more. (…)
On being laid off
by Diana on November 2, 2009
Same story different verse, next verse same as the first. I was laid off. Yep, it happens and has been happening all over the US for some time now. As a matter of fact it’s the third time I’ve been (…)
Webtwitch Wednesday
by Diana on June 3, 2009
Hot right now: Google Wave: Productivity, Open Source, and Extendible Windows Live Search becomes Bing.com E3: New game news! Microsoft’s Natal Controller & a BBC Report on it PSP Go Little late on this one: Wolfram|Alpha However, they are holding (…)
The Information Needs of Gamers: A User Group Analysis
by Diana on April 3, 2009
You have met them before, may have children that are or even consider yourself one. This group of people cuts across all demographics including age, race, gender, class, nationality, and education (Squire and Steinkuehler, 2005). Together they spend an average (…)
Presidential Campaigning in Video Games
by Diana on October 26, 2008
I apologize at the lateness of this post as I was abroad and without Internet access when I first learned of it. Barack Obama has made history again, this time as the first presidential candidate ever to advertise in video (…)
Understanding energy consumption through an Internet game
by Diana on August 8, 2008
Chevron has joined forces with the Economist Group to bring you Energyville, your very own city where you get to manage the energy consumption while keeping your people “prosperous, secure, and living in a clean environment”. It sounds pretty interesting (…)
Appadurai’s Global Cultural Economy and World of Warcraft…
by Diana on November 20, 2007
In class this week are we talking about Globalization and Arjun Appadurai which sparked some thoughts in me on how I’d like to study globalization through interactions online. What I am interested in is seeing the mashup of ethnoscapes, mediascapes, (…)