Tipping your hat is a phenomenon that has lasted about a hundred years. It was a common way to greet people on the street. You would tip your hat as a sign of respect or acknowledgment. It was the kind of greeting you would give when you wanted to acknowledge someone’s presence, but either you [...]
Archive for the ‘New Media’ Category
21st Century Tipping Your Hat
Posted: February 12, 2011 by aegisfang in New MediaTags: Technology as Culture
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Artful Dodging
Posted: January 17, 2011 by Twitchdoctor in game design, Game Research, Games and Life, Games and the Media, New Media, UncategorizedTags: art, censorship, Chris Crawford, computer games, game design, game development, game studies, Henry Jenkins, International Game Developers Association, Video game
In his article Broadpaw made an excellent point about the reluctance of many people to think of games as art or even that particular games might be a form of art; we are lightyears away from someone acknowledging that a specific game might be great art. Broadpaw noted that the entire debate is structured around [...]
Death Notices
Posted: September 2, 2010 by Twitchdoctor in New MediaTags: blogging, blogs, Facebook, media research, news magazines, newspapers, Newsweek, Pew, Wikipedia
Getting a Twitter account may be the best predictor yet of the onset of mid-life crisis.
