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Spencer Striker's Blog: February 2010
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Monday, February 22, 2010. The notion of irrationally conservative decision-making. Spencer Striker, PhD. Monday, February 8, 2010. Work in the Real World. When I hear the idea/accusation that some people work in the real world and others don’t I think of the bifurcation between jobs that are considered serious and jobs that are considered frivolous. Consider for example, this report that lists jobs according to their level of prestige in American society, the top 10 and the bottom 10:. PhD, Digital Media.
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Spencer Striker's Blog: Commodore 64 - and the fleetingness of cool
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Thursday, September 29, 2011. Commodore 64 - and the fleetingness of cool. Love this retro video about the launch of the Commodore 64, originally broadcast in 1988. Spencer Striker, PhD. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Spencer Striker, PhD. New Media Production, Social Media Optimization, Entrepreneurship, Team Building, Project Development; Leadership; the future of Multimedia—including Mobile, Interactive, TV, and Web Video. At the American University in Dubai. Founding Creative Director . 2009 Web...
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Spencer Striker's Blog: August 2010
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Tuesday, August 3, 2010. Circulations In and Out of Virtual Worlds. Lesson 8: Circulations In and Out of Virtual Worlds. C&I 675: Researching Virtual Worlds. Assignment Due: Write a reworking of the issue of “transfer” of learning in relation to MMO gaming based on these two articles:. 8226; Malaby, T. M. (2006). Parlaying value: Capital in and beyond virtual worlds. Games and Culture, 1(2), 141-162. The Tao of the Don. People will pay whatever they think something is worth. Value, therefore, arises ...
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Spencer Striker's Blog: Information Fatigue
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Friday, October 28, 2011. The term “information fatigue” was first coined in the 1990s by British psychologist, David Lewis. But as history shows us, people have been complaining about information overload for thousands of years. Gleick: …I’m hesitating to call it “problem” of information overload, of information glut — is not as new a thing as we like to think. Of course, the words are new. Information glut, information overload, information fatigue. Or is the cake a lie? Spencer Striker, PhD. 4th Annua...
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Spencer Striker's Blog: August 2009
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009. ButtonMashers Season 2 Premieres Today! View it in your browser. Sara Cadwell, PR Manager. Kaleb Havens, Writer. Ashley Endemann, Graphic Design. GameZombie - Video Selections. Bull; ButtonMashers Season 2 - Episode 1:. Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Bull; Cliff Bleszinski – Gears of War 2 World Exclusive:. Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Top video on the web for one of the industry’s brightest stars). Bull; GameZombie’s 2009 Webby Award reel:. Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Of ...
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Spencer Striker's Blog: Circulations In & Out of Virtual Worlds
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Tuesday, August 3, 2010. Circulations In and Out of Virtual Worlds. Lesson 8: Circulations In and Out of Virtual Worlds. C&I 675: Researching Virtual Worlds. Assignment Due: Write a reworking of the issue of “transfer” of learning in relation to MMO gaming based on these two articles:. 8226; Malaby, T. M. (2006). Parlaying value: Capital in and beyond virtual worlds. Games and Culture, 1(2), 141-162. The Tao of the Don. People will pay whatever they think something is worth. Value, therefore, arises ...
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Spencer Striker's Blog: November 2011
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Friday, November 4, 2011. As We May Think - And the World's Waking Up. Vannevar Bush anticipated the Internet and the World Wide Web as well as hypertrext, computers, speech recognition and Wikipedia. All have come into being with greater or lesser efficacy and usefulness for people. But have these tools given rise to a collective memory that will end all wars? Spencer Striker, PhD. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Spencer Striker, PhD. At the American University in Dubai. Founding Creative Director .
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Spencer Striker's Blog: July 2010
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Friday, July 30, 2010. C&I 675: Researching Virtual Worlds. Assignment Due: Who is your avatar? What is the relationship between your avatar and your self? Use the readings to explore this relationship. Analyzing World of Warcraft’s Notion of Identity via a Close Reading of Turkle, S. (1997). Aspects of the self; Tinysex and gender trouble. Life on the Screen: Identity in the age of the Internet (pp. 177-232). New York: Touchstone. Niko, the Homicidal Terrorist. GTA Designers Smart-Ass Approach to Cops.
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Spencer Striker's Blog: April 2009
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Thursday, April 16, 2009. GameZombie Wins 2nd Straight Webby Honoree Award! Boy, do we have big news to break to all of you! Cries of joy can be heard echoing around the GameZombie.tv studios by the hour these days. Hold on to your seat and then give everyone around you silent high fives. Here we go! GZ's 2nd Webby Award! Http:/ www.youtube.com/gamezombieutube. Ultimate Challenge has Liftoff! Http:/ www.facebook.com/profile.php? Oh, there is, and don't call me Shirley. GameZombie- armed with the stro...
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