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One Author Breaks Down the Reality of Violent Games in the Media

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Chris Person posts a link to this very clear critique of news reporting that blames violent video games and movies…

Why You Should Blog to Get Your Next Job

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I Canna Give Ye Any More Screens, Cap’n!

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The iPad Mini and the ChromeBook are just loaners, but it was fun to arrange them this way.

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Last year, NASA announced that the Curiosity rover had found preliminary evidence of an ancient streambed, indicating that water once…

‘Atari Dump’ Will Be Excavated, After Nearly 30 Years

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The New Mexico landfill or "Atari Dump" where the game console maker buried its mistakes — the biggest being the…

Texty Cloak of Darkness in Prose

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Below is a snippet from "Texty Cloak of Darkness," which aims to use prose conventions to emulate game-state changes and…

Multimedia | Computers and Writing 2013

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Earlier this week, the Computers and Writing folks discussed the decline in the use of the word "computer" in MLA…

Chicago Sun-Times lays off its photo staff

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“The Sun-Times business is changing rapidly and our audiences are consistently seeking more video content with their news,” The Sun-Times…

Students say “math class is stupid and boring,” and they are right. –Mathematician Paul Lockhart

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I am working on some conference papers that touch on coding as a liberal art. While reviewing classics, like Stephenson's…

Diana Kimball on “What Scares Us About Programming?”

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A few months old, but still interesting: entrepreneur and digital culture promoter Diana Kimball responds to a hacker brainstorming session.…