I was never much of a gamer. Of course, I built my fair share of Sims houses and Zoo Tycoon cages, but never anything beyond that....
Continue reading...”After all, tomorrow is another day.”
The last blog already. And what better way to start it then with a quote from Margaret Mitchells Gone With the Wind? For this last blog...
Continue reading...All the possibilities
So, all these weeks I have been blogging about all these different ways to make history fun and more modern using digital means. Today I would...
Continue reading...Challenging Myself with Vocaloid
Am I doing it? Am I finally doing it? No, I am not going to write my own song using Vocaloid. Perhaps that could be a...
Continue reading...My last prediction
For my last blog I want to make another prediction, with the simple reason that I came up with multiple predictions while preparing my presentation. With...
Continue reading...Rewriting History
Games with historic themes have been popular since the early beginnings. Popular historic game titles are Command & Conquer, Rome: Total War and Age of Empires....
Continue reading...Marrying Hatsune Miku
Marrying your idol? I’m pretty sure some of you out there have dreamt of such a thing. Marrying your favorite virtual character? I don’t know about...
Continue reading...Differences that Occurred Due to New Media
On previous few blogs, I have been writing about how traditional media theory has been affected by the digital media, especially the new media. For today’s...
Continue reading...Motivations
In my final blog post, I will be discussing motivations. What are some of peoples’ motivations in consuming digital media? People use digital media for various...
Continue reading...Archiving the digital
Not so very long ago most computer users printed everything. They held onto their paper texts, probably also because the average pre-millennium (Windows) computer was quite...
Continue reading...It’s leaking again
If you are someone who enjoys playing video games you are probably familiar with the feeling of excitement you get when a new game that looks...
Continue reading...Scientology and the stars
In my previous blog I discussed the Anonymous banner and what it’s used for. The event that changed their status from ‘trolls on 4chan’ to the...
Continue reading...Video games: eternally controversial
In class, we discussed how gender roles have been portrayed in video games through time. There were some worrying discoveries we looked at, something which really...
Continue reading...Part II: Facing AI ethics
Last week I promised a Part II on Faces and the Digital based on an interesting podcast: The Digital Human: Visage, but this has morphed into...
Continue reading...Spiral of Silence
On the last blog post, I have talked about the Cultivation Theory and how it has changed. Today, I will be talking about the Spiral of...
Continue reading...Exploring diversity in video games
Digitalisation has created incredible and powerful dimensions in which human behaviours and cultural interpretations can be influenced and modified, but also innovative methods, through which the...
Continue reading...Something lost. . .
Usually I write this really upbeat blog, but today will be different. So prepare yourself for a change of pace. Normally I talk about all the...
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