Ben Aslinger
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Pro-am Issues?
Great post! Sorry to be a little late on posting my comments, but I think you do a great job of flagging invisible labor that is so important to ensuring that games technically work and that games can be played successfully by a human operator. From t ... -
Issues of Assessment
I really like this clip, and I can see many of us using it in our classrooms along with your post to stimulate a lively discussion. One challenge with the Huffington Post example is that very few of the authors make a living directly off their writing, ... -
Ethics and Consumption
Thank you Mary for your post. It is interesting to think about how both the identities of workers are played up and rendered invisible here. It's interesting to think about the effectiveness of campaigns such as this when so many workers are unwilli ... -
Windows of Change?
Thanks for this really thought-provoking post! Your post makes me wonder if a channel aspiring to inclusion on satellite and cable TV lineups that wants to earn per subscriber fees and increase ad revenue (I’m assuming Current TV is an ad-based channel) c ... -
Monitoring Emotions
Elizabeth, Thanks for bringing up the notion of emotional performance. What a great way to end the mobile media week by moving from performance of the city to performance of identity/community/the self to the performance of emotion. I often have to ch ... -
Emily, Thanks for the
Emily, Thanks for the interesting post and the ways it highlights Chicago's role in defining U.S. telecommunications. It seems that the telephone directory performs a role in Chicago not fully performed by newspapers in that the telephone directory ... -
The Personal is Political
Germaine, I think you hit on something. Maybe private is not the right word, but personal is. It does seem that these moments of joy/revelation or psychological awareness do take place on the individual level (and largely internally). While personal, th ... -
Defining the Digital Divide
Thanks for the interesting post. One of the things that has always troubled me (and drawn a lot of attention from scholars such as Lisa Nakamura and Henry Jenkins) is the way that digital divide rhetoric has traditionally privileged access over particip ... -
Location Games
Germaine, Thanks for the excellent post. I think you are right to assert that locative media challenge us to think of new definitions of mobility that acknowledge geography, the technological matrix, and the activity of users. I especially love your t ... -
Aswin, I really like your
Aswin, I really like your notion of "flash fandom", particularly in this case where the unexpected flurry of responses supporting Amit Paul calls attention to the invisibility of northeastern India in both popular culture in politics. Your insta ...