Could it? I may have exaggerated Jane McGonigal’s thoughts on gaming’s potential possibilities, but her optimism and enthusiasm may well agree with the title.
McGonigal talks of gaming’s collaborative potential, that if harnessed correctly, could lead to better and more productive problem solving capabilities. In her earlier works she specifically discusses gaming’s immersive dynamics and how they…
Twitter’s official app for Android is notorious for its limited features and overall lack of functionality. Let’s face it – if people had a choice between the official app and using a computer, they’d choose the latter. Or maybe they’d choose another app. So I tried another app: UberSocial, formerly known as Twidroyd.
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The Question
Academic research on Twitter has been rife since it hit off in 2006, with significant focus on two topics in particular- that of privacy and identity. Much that has been written by scholars of Twitter has generally been cautious, negative (labeling privacy as a problem) or positive in the sense of data accumulation (i.e what can be inferred…
So you’re thinking, ‘fight’… ‘battle’? What kind of nonsense is this guy stirring up? How can you fight Wikipedia?
Good question. The only answer to that is yes, it’s possible, and most importantly, probable if you’re intending on making an entry of your own.
Well I set out to do just that, and given a forewarning of possible bot or…
“Space: the final frontier – to boldly go where no man has gone before.”
This may be the answer Kelly was looking for when he set out to answer his own question, the title of his book and thesis. Let’s not get carried away here – I have chosen the above quote in all seriousness. The infamous Star Trek phrase…
Phone hacking dominated British headlines during the summer months this year and the revelations were so detrimental to Murdoch’s empire that he thought it was best to shut down The News of the World – believing it had let down its readers. Whether this was in fact an elaborate ‘brush it under the carpet’ operation we might never know- not…