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01 Sep

Paradise Lost: the Fall of Open Internet

If the Internet represents a space to locate the spiritual self online – a type of digital heaven – it must remain as open and free as its metaphorical counterpart

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Journalism, Technology
Tagged apps, closed, heaven, open internet, paradise lost, world wide web
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18 Oct

Brains or brawn: the active Jew fantasy

Inglorious Basterds and Train of Life, two modern reimaginings of holocaust resistance – are they just lofty fantasy, or something more?

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Human Rights, Movies
Tagged brad pitt, fantasy, film, hitler, holocaust, information, Inglorious Basterds, metafiction, Movies, narrative, online, reimagining, subjectivity, tarantino, Train of Life, war, wwii
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02 Oct

Generation gap

Poets need to move on to new mediums to deliver their messages to our generation.

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Art, Human Rights, Pop Culture, Video Games
Tagged argosin, Call of Duty, gaming, grand theft auto, holocaust, Human Rights, information, information wants to be free, Internet, mario, Movies, narrative, new media, poetry, poets, video games
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16 Sep

Faith in fantasy

Psychological fantasy films and the path to the unreal in art.

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Art, Movies, Music, Pop Culture, Video Games
Tagged Art, beatles, belief, faith, fantasy, imagination, mmog, narrative, pan's labyrinth, sci-fi, subjectivity, text, the orphanage, unreal, world of warcraft
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15 Sep

The Movie Franchise Killed the Comic Book Star

Why Disney’s Marvel acquisition signals the death of comic books but the survival of superhero mythology.

By Alex Cybulski
Also posted in Art, Movies, Pop Culture
Tagged batman, Comic books, DC, Disney, franchises, icon, Marvel, Movies, mythology, narrative, sign, spider-man, superhero, superheroes, superman, symbol, writing
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12 Sep

The Beatles: Rock Band as historiographic metafiction

Harmonix’s latest interactive music game offers a heavily stylized retelling of a band’s history – but is it any less valuable than any other “real” historical reference?

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Art, Video Games
Tagged Art, fiction, Games, Harmonix, historiographic metafiction, history, information, narrative, Rock Band, subjectivity, the beatles, video games
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31 Aug

Literacy 2.0

The Internet is no time waster – it’s turning youth into a literate legion.

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Journalism, Pop Culture, Technology
Tagged Art, information, Internet, literacy, lunsford, social media, society eye, stanford study, the new literacy, Thompson, Twitter, youth
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25 Aug

Videogame characters of well-rounded esteem

If good characters cohesively hold a variety of characteristics in interrelated unity, are fictional folks like Andrew Ryan, Captain Price and Niko Bellic more than just flat entities?