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17 Jan

User farming

User farming

As community becomes more vital to the success of web journalism, it’s important that sites don’t take advantage of users’ contributions to content.

By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Uncategorized
Tags: blogging, community, condundrum, gaming, information, information wants to be free, Internet, video games
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10 Jan

Gender Benders

Gender Benders

Why is gender bending not a part of Canadian popular culture?

By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Art, Human Rights, Pop Culture
Tags: androgyny, Art, bowie, gender, gender bending, indie, information, labels, narrative, online, prejudice, society
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13 Nov

All play, no work: Gamercamp v 1.0

All play, no work: Gamercamp v 1.0

Why you should send the kids to Gamercamp: an interview with co-organizer Mark Rabo.

By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Art, Pop Culture, Technology, Video Games
Tags: Art, fiction, Gamercamp, gaming, hand eye society, IGDA, information, interactive, Internet, mario, Mark Rabo, online, programming, sound, Toronto, video games
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18 Oct

Brains or brawn: the active Jew fantasy

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
Filed under: Human Rights, Literature, Movies
Tags: 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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17 Oct

The art of awe

The art of awe

Cube mosaics; giant one-colour paintings; dusty attic furniture: modern art’s got a bad rep. What’s the solution?

By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Art, Pop Culture, Technology
Tags: Art, beuys, cubism, dali, deininger, halley, indie, information, modern art, online, painting, photography, picasso, pop, pop art, sculpture, trash art, van Doesburg, willard
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12 Oct

Dear sports fans: Get the fuck off my lawn.

Dear sports fans: Get the fuck off my lawn.

Why sports fans and gaming don’t mix.

By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Art, Pop Culture, Video Games
Tags: Art, console war, gaming, graphics, information, madden, soulja boy, sports, sports fans, subjectivity, video games, xbox
Comments: 3

02 Oct

Generation gap

Generation gap

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

By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Art, Human Rights, Literature, Pop Culture, Video Games
Tags: 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
Comments: 2

12 Sep

The Beatles: Rock Band as historiographic metafiction

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
Filed under: Art, Literature, Video Games
Tags: 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

Literacy 2.0

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

By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Journalism, Literature, Pop Culture, Technology
Tags: Art, information, Internet, literacy, lunsford, social media, society eye, stanford study, the new literacy, Thompson, Twitter, youth
Comments: 1

24 Jul

“Information wants to be free”

“Information wants to be free”

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

By Alex Hayter
Filed under: Journalism, Pop Culture, Technology
Tags: 1960's, Guttenburg, hacker ethic, information, information wants to be free, Internet
Comments: 6