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Digital Doldrums: A Review of Ready Player One
Would you like to save your game?
Mama’s Gotta Work: The Feminist Origins of Wages for Facebook
Why do we do all of this work for free?
Can We Be In Sync? A Review of Pettman’s Infinite Distraction
Infinite Distraction is a polemical look at the state of the internet and social media. Dominic Petman, a Professor of Culture and Media at the New School in NYC, expanded it from a Facebook post he wrote into a book looking at the ways in which new media increasingly modulates daily experience, through the creation …
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Do You Think This Is A Game?
How does “life” attempt to imitate video games? Or, how do other media forms and corporations turn to video games for inspiration? In some video games, character statistics are measured in numbers or grades and improvements in abilities are correlated to increased stats. In some video games, players even allocate points to different skill metrics …
