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Category Archive: Journalism

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 Literature, Technology
Tagged apps, closed, heaven, open internet, paradise lost, world wide web
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24 Sep

Polaris pennies

The Polaris Music Prize 2010 should put more money into marketing and awareness, surely the most valuable part of the competition.

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Music
Tagged Canada, fucked up, Joel Plaskett, marketing, Music, Polaris, prize, winner
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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 Literature, 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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16 Aug

Dawn of the debt

Why our ongoing zombie fiction craze could be related to the recession.

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Art, Literature, Movies, Pop Culture, Video Games
Tagged big brother, dead set, debt, Internet, jennifer gardy, left 4 dead, mathematics, narrative, recession, the strain, undead, Walking Dead, when zombies attack!, zombie
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07 Aug

Gaming with the Formalists Part II: New Games Journalism

Should videogame criticism be more about the gamer than the game?

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Art, Video Games
Tagged always black, bow nigger, Cleanth Brooks, cyberpunk, eve online, jedi knight II, jim rossignol, Journalism, kieron gillen, new games journalism, planeside, ste curran, subjectivity, the formalist critics, the great scam, this gaming life, tom chick, video games
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30 Jul

Gaming with the Formalists

What makes a videogame a videogame?

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Technology, Video Games
Tagged coding, criticism, Eichenbaum, Formalism, Half-Life, interactive, literary, Sklovskij, Video Games
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24 Jul

“Information wants to be free”

Counter-culture philosophy freed information online, but at the cost of journalism’s future.

By Alex Hayter
Also posted in Pop Culture, Technology
Tagged 1960's, Guttenburg, hacker ethic, information, information wants to be free, Internet
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