Jane McGonigal a Game Designer, Inspirational Speaker and New York Times Best Selling Author of Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us..
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Despite the zoom consumption of media events in the fantastic land of the Internets, an occasional review once-through gleans some..
“My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real..
I talked a little about Jane McGonigal‘s gaming TED Talk in a previous post. For the next few days (April..
Last week I attended a really fantastic panel at the American Museum of Natural History (@amnh) called “Beyond a Trend:..
An interactive social film and techno-jigsaw that tracks a talking bear through the wilderness to demonstrate the criss-crossed connectivity of..
A couple of weeks ago, I attended a lecture as a part of the NYAS Science & the City..
Reading Joseph’s cool Second Life post (“I want my avatar to have a PhD!”) I was reminded of Felicia Day‘s incredible and..
The idea that gamers are only antisocial geeks with little to offer society is only..
“Viral Spiral” by David Bollier is a fascinating read on the development of “open source” as it applies to software,..
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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, […]