“Even half a century ago, Marshall McLuhan, who came closer than most to seeing what was coming, warned, “When things..
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Jane McGonigal a Game Designer, Inspirational Speaker and New York Times Best Selling Author of Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us..
My dear friend Kaity Thomson posted a link on her Facebook wall yesterday evening. The article titled, “Occupy Wall Street activists..
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About the Author Shane Koyczan is a 36 year old award winning Canadian poet, author and performer. Co-founder of Spoken..
Although we live in an Internet era of oversharing, sexting, combined with an HBO/Showtime matrix of explicit programming, and a..
Brett Gaylor’s RIP: A Remix Manifesto helped to break this conversation open. Framed around Remix, he explores how a shift from..
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After Elizabeth and I finished our presentation on Jane McGonigal there were a few questions that were asked. We promised to blog the answers. […]
Who would think that trauma would be subject to being played with? I say we are blessed with humor and laughter being one of […]
I find the story behind SuperBetter to be quite inspirational. It's response to a real life trauma and effectiveness amongst those who have played, […]
Although Banksy is credited with being a changemaker, graffiti artists discredit him as one. The common reason is because he's stenciling, not freestyling. Personally, I […]
Perhaps the best reply to this is the meme I made. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2YKmkwcJWNfemFaVmlOclRrSzg/edit?usp=sharing That aside, borrowing Paul Kivel’s metaphor, the American ideals of heteronormativity are like boxes, […]