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For kids it means media that has social currency. When a kid pulls out a Pokemon deck or a game boy, you’ll see a kind of flocking behavior – the media is the social glue, the common language that means you belong in the same cultural universe. After almost every basketball game that I take…
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Pokemon was and still is a global media sensation that first swept childhood culture in the late nineties. The kids who are graduating from college now are the first post-Pokemon generation. These are kids who grew up with ubiquitous social gaming and convergent media as a central part of their peer culture. After Mario, Pokemon…
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Media Literacy and Social Action in a Post-Pokemon World A rough transcript of a keynote address for the 51st NFAIS Annual Conference [February 24, 2009] What is it that kids are doing online these days, and what does it mean for the shape of knowledge, culture, and information in the future? We all know that…
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Society of Digital Agencies
Society of Digital Agencies
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Open Bookmarks
Open Bookmarks Imagine a future where instead of lending someone a book, you lend them your bookmarks. Where your notes, annotations and references are synchronised across platforms and applications. Where your bookmarks belong to you, and a record of every book you read is saved and stored securely, no matter how or where you read…
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Metal Parts from Papercraft Molds — How-to from Make: Projects
Metal Parts from Papercraft Molds — How-to from Make: Projects As the internet papercraft explosion has taught us, paper is really not a bad medium for 3D design, especially for the cost. Software like Pepakura Designer will convert any 3D digital model into a papercraft one that can be printed out, cut out, folded up,…
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The Four Stages of “Getting” Twitter (Graphic) | Top Cultured
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52 Weeks of UX: Keep On Learning
52 Weeks of UX: Keep On Learning 52weeksofux: One of the greatest qualities in most creative problem solvers is a thirst for learning. Most designers and user experience professionals I know have some level of post-graduate education. But if you were to dig a little deeper, you would likely find that many have degrees in…
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Fixpert’s Blog: I Want to Punch the FarmVille Characters in the Face
Fixpert’s Blog: I Want to Punch the FarmVille Characters in the Face fixpert: I quit Facebook some 6 months back. Unfortunately, due to client work, I have recently had to create a secret stealth Facebook account to refer to points of interaction that clients find relevant to our projects. Experiencing Facebook in this way (with…