After reading Audrey Watters “Apple and the digital textbook counter revolution” we saw Apples plans to change the textbook industry. They offer textbooks that are available to download from you Ipad and I even Iphones. Digital text books are a … Continue reading
I am really not too sure how I feel about books switching over to only being digital. Personally, I like to have a physical book in my hand. I like the feel of it. There is something about seeing words … Continue reading
In Cow Clicker: The Making of Obsession, Ian Bogost speaks of his satirical Facebook game, Cow Clicker. I found this reading and the game, itself, to be extremely amusing. Being an admitted Facebook addict, I have played my share of … Continue reading
“Video games could never be an art.” This article is coming from the most over rated movie critic of all time, he loved Tree of Life, worst movie ever. Video games are developed first as a forum of art. This … Continue reading
Roger Ebert seemed pretty set in his thinking that video games are not, and cannot be art. I think that his thinking is pretty flawed, and Kellee Santiago did a terrible job in defending her point that video games are … Continue reading
Rushed Rushkoff
Here is what I did in class:ENGL 303 002
Good ol’ PowerPoint!!! Melissa Wilkins and I (Stacey Stoneking) created a lovely PowerPoint for our discussion of Rushkoff’s Program or Be Programmed!!! We will be presenting it in class, but if you would like to follow along or revisit it … Continue reading
In Douglas Rushkoff’s, Program or be Programmed , chapter 3 and 4, the author presents a compelling argument on how we need to pay attention to how our technology is being programmed and how if we do not, we shall pay … Continue reading