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Who owns the playground?: Urban gamification and spatial politics in Pokémon GO

“Sydney park destroyed as thousands of Pokémon Go players descend” wrote Irish news website TheJournal.ie on the first of August. This is just one example of a situation wherein Niantic’s popular augmented reality game Pokémon GO puts a considerable...
By Stefani Mans on 11/14/16 Comments Off on Who owns the playground?: Urban gamification and spatial politics in Pokémon GO
Amazon Underground – the app store insurgent

Amazon Underground – the app store insurgent

Recently Amazon launched a new app store Amazon Underground for Android users, which replaced the Free App a Day program. It features not only items from the Amazon shopping app and the whole catalog from its app store, but...
By Radina Teodosieva on 09/17/15 Comments Off on Amazon Underground – the app store insurgent
O’Reilly at PICNIC 2012: Give-and-Take on the Internet

O’Reilly at PICNIC 2012: Give-and-Take on the Internet

  SHARING CULTURE VERSUS CAPITALISM Since its beginning the internet has been designed as a sharing platform for information exchange without the regular borders of time and space. Free from all the constraints of the offline world information could...
By Richard Zimerman on 10/05/12 1