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Illustrations RSS FeedsWhy Video Games May Be Hard to Give Up - (Yahoo! | Health Day News (will probably expire)) The researchers found that the games can provide opportunities for achievement, freedom and even a connection to other players. Those benefits trumped a shallow sense of fun, which doesn't keep gamers as interested. Players reported feeling the best when the games produced positive experiences and challenges that connected to what they knew in the real world. "It's our contention that the psychological 'pull' of games is largely due to their capacity to engender feelings of autonomy, competence and relatedness," said Ryan. He believes that video games not only motivate further play but "also can be experienced as enhancing psychological wellness, at least short-term." [The actual academic article doesn't appear to be online, but this report cites the the January issue of . --DGJ] ...Feed Source: jerz.setonhill.edu Clooney, Others Develop SCI FI Shows
- (SciFi.com) Diamond Age, based on Neal Stephenson's best-selling novel The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, is a six-hour miniseries from Clooney and fellow executive producer Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Productions.
When a prominent member of society concludes that the futuristic civilization in which he lives is stifling creativity, he commissions an interactive book for his daughter that serves as a guide through a surreal alternate world. Stephenson will adapt his novel for the miniseries, the first time the Hugo and Nebula award winner has written for TV.
[Hot diggity damn!
I just hope it doesn't suck. --DGJ]
... Clues About the Gender Gap
- (Inside Higher Ed) a survey by Noel-Levitz of nearly 100,000 incoming freshmen at 292 public and private two- and four-year colleges, finds that men and women share high expectations for getting a degree, "no matter what obstacles get in my way." But male students at the same time report coming into college with far less ambitious intellectual interests and sharply lesser study habits than their female counterparts. Even so, male students in general express greater confidence in their academic abilities than do female students. --... Publishing a Short Story
- (Jerz's Literacy Weblog)
[A handout on my website, , is currently turning up pretty high in the Google rankings. Every so often I get an e-mail from someone asking for advice.
What advice I give depends on how serious the author is. Since I am not myself an author of short fiction, I'm not the most qualified to answer.
Someone who asks a stranger on the internet where one might publish a short story probably isn't already reading the periodicals that publish short fiction. If you aren't reading the periodicals that publish short fiction, you probably don't have a very good idea of what kind of short fiction is actually selling these days. If you don't have an idea of what kind of short fiction is selling these days, then it might be a bit premature to expect to make a sale anytime soon.
On the other hand, if being published is more important than getting paid, there are many college and community literary magazines in just about every community.
(More later I was called away... The lost art of the letter
- (Physics Web) E-mail is , of course, cheaper and encourages quicker thought, and it introduces a peculiar blend of the personal and professional. The AIP historians have also detected a decline in the use of lab notebooks, finding that data are often stored directly into computer files. Finally, they have noted the influence of PowerPoint, which can stultify scientific discussion and make it less free-wheeling; information also tends to be dumbed down when scientists submit PowerPoint presentations in place of formal reports.
Generally, though, these new communications techniques are good for scientists, encouraging rapid communication and stripping out hierarchies. But for historians, they are a mixed blessing. It is not just that searching through a hard disk or database is less romantic than poring over a dusty box of old letters in an archive. Nor is it that the information in e-mails differs in kind from that in letters. Far more worrying is the question of whether e-mail and oth... I, Columbine Killer
- (Wired) What's it actually like? Does it exploit the tragedy for cheap thrills? Or does it actually have artistic merit -- offering a new way to think about Columbine?
Right off the bat, Ledonne tries to put his critics off guard by delivering precisely the opposite of what you'd expect. Nobody will be able to use Super Columbine to live out explicit fantasies of gore or train themselves to shoot up a high school.
That's because it's anything but a graphically sophisticated, blood-soaked shoot-em-up. On the contrary, Super Columbine was designed to look like a clunky Nintendo game from the mid '90s, with low-rez, pixilated characters the size of sugar cubes, and cheesy MIDI music. When you kill someone, the avatar looks like a mashed red blot.
What strikes you, instead, is Ledonne's attention to narrative detail. He painstakingly researched the killers' life stories using publicly released police investigations of the pair, and the game thus includes all manner of detail I never kne... Mark Twain, Father of the Internet
- (Tyee) Even Twain scholars seem to have missed his foresight on this subject. I discovered it by accident, in browsing through the 24 volumes of his collected works in the "Author's National Edition." In an 1898 short story called "From the 'London Times' of 1904," he describes an invention called the "telelectroscope," a gadget hooked up to the phone system: "The improved 'limitless-distance' telephone was presently introduced, and the daily doings of the globe made visible to everybody, and audibly discussable too, by witnesses separated by any number of leagues." --
[I enjoy teaching Forster's (1909) each year, but I hadn't heard of Mark Twain's story, "."
Killian concludes:The story is not a particularly good technological thriller, yet the story seems to be as much about as it is about the telelectroscope. Given that context, I think the story is worth a closer look.
The 1954 article "" refers to Twain's interest in . Szczepanik, the inventor whose death is blamed on the i... Why Grants.gov Should Be Abolished
- (Chronicle) Recently, I tried to help a faculty member at my college submit a grant proposal to a National Institutes of Health competition. I soon discovered that one can no longer submit a grant to NIH directly. One has to submit it through Grants.gov. I estimate that it took me more than 25 hours to try to submit the grant. After 37 error messages (I have them saved, because no one would believe me without cyber evidence), I am still not sure the proposal was received.--
[This article struck terror into my once-hopeful heart. --DGJ]
... New Definition for Liberal Education
- (Inside Higher Ed) The [Association of American Colleges and Universities] report outlines curricular goals for all colleges, but they are not of the "two semesters of science, two courses in writing" variety. Instead they are four broad "essential learning outcomes," with the idea that different kinds of institutions would assure these outcomes in different ways. Generally, the outcomes would encourage rigor of preparation, interdisciplinary and team learning, and links between experiences in and out of the classroom.
The outcomes are:
[The report is called (PDF). I think SHU's educational objectives hold up pretty well against this document. --DGJ]
... Interacting with Immersive Worlds
- (Brock University) The primary focus of this conference is to explore the growing cultural importance of interactive media. All scholarship on digital interactive media, such as computer games, mixed realities and interactive fiction, as well as users, including adults and children, will be considered in one of four broad conference streams:
[The CFP deadline is Feb 16, in Ontario. I won't be able to go, but it still looks interesting. --DGJ]
... Tacos, toilets and a glass of tap water!
- (Mexican Civilization) Mexican food in the united states is like the bow legged asthmatic cousin of real Mexican food. --
[I have been enjoying the blogging that is currently being posted by students of my division chair, . --DGJ]
... Notes From a Senior Editor: A Close Look at the OLPC
- (Linux Today) I have seen it, touched it, and played with it. The final industrial design prototype for the XO, the device that the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Initiative is going to start shipping to countries across the world this summer. AMD hosted a luncheon on Monday to give the press an update on the project, and to unveil the completed design. --
[This story isn't getting nearly as much attention as the iPhone, but I think OLPC will make a bigger difference to more people. --DGJ]
... USC Interactive Media Division Withdraws Slamdance Sponsorship
- (Ludicidal Tendencies) Whatever one thinks of the game's content, the game went through an extensive judging process and was deemed a finalist by a jury of game experts. To have the game pulled based on either pressure from backers or a fear of liability is to say that independent games do not deserve the same respect and conscientious protection by artistic venues as independent films. Would a difficult, perhaps controversial, film be pulled from the festival under the same circumstances? Of course not -- and it had never happened in the history of the festival. That is the point of having a festival such as Slamdance, to confront those moments when media and sensibility and culture are in conflict. To offer a place where the independent independents can be seen, appreciated, lauded or condemned -- but not hidden or refused.
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[A] festival honoring a "philosophy of design" must be open to more than just beautiful independent games or independent games that make us feel good; and... Scary New Media
- (Dissections) You know something is seriously changing in a genre when a masked serial killer invites you to check out his "blog". Such a gesture is obviously a solicitation of interactive engagement -- a marketing scheme intended to solicit an investment of attention and to mollify a fan base, with the promise of giving a web-savvy audience member "something extra" for free online. --
[A little later in the article, Arnzen offers a good discussion of new media horror as an expression of anxiety over new media itself. I don't get cable TV, and it has been so long since I have followed any TV series closely enough to consider this sort of thing. I do remember reading something about a controversy in that the cast of a particular show had agreed to air a certain number of short web-only episodes, but the studio execs refused to pay them extra for their work, so the episodes stopped. As I understand it, YouTube has recently limited its clip lengths to 10 minutes, which is slightly lon... 'Plutoed' chosen as '06 Word of the Year
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Why did I stop here instead of a mile back or a mile further down the road?... Is it Time to Buy a New Digital Camera? - It is fun to have the latest camera for your photography. But do you really need it? This article is going to share with you what you need to know whether you need that new camera or not ... How to Choose a Photo Album - Photo albums keep our treasured photos organized and preserved so we can relive our memories with them for years to come. Choosing the best album for your needs will help keep those precious memories safe, so what should you consider when choosing?... Digital Photography - Don't Be in the Dark About Light - Part of creating a digital photograph is being aware of how a scene is lit. Creating the same photograph under different lighting conditions evokes different emotional responses from the viewer. So, emotional responses are determined in part by the lighting - especially the color, quality and direction of the light.... 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