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Au revoir Co-hort 11

Au revoir Co-hort 11

Posts on everything I remember promising to post – done. Papers marked. Marks up. A few extra emails done. Out of excuses for delaying this post. You have been an extraordinary class. It was just so much fun…I really owe a lot to all of you. There are many reasons for how I feel, but […]

Can you defame an Avatar? Some tentative clues at the beginning of the path…

Can you defame an Avatar? Some tentative clues at the beginning of the path…

The above is the only avatar I’ve ever used out of its game-given context. It was generated on an X-Box 360. An article on some (gaming?) website showed me how to export it, and so I did. It is slimmer and more jaundiced looking than I actually am (or was at time). The blue shirt […]

“Magic Circle or Not”: Interactive Entertainment Law Review 1:2 – Post # 2

“Magic Circle or Not”: Interactive Entertainment Law Review 1:2 – Post # 2

In the second issue of the first volume of the Interactive Entertainment Law Review you will find the editorial (linked to through the above screencap) titled “Magic Circle or not?”. The material therein was essentially worked through with the help of the class during the past semester as can be evidenced through bits and pieces […]

“Nazi symbols in German video-games” – More Than Just A Game | Frankfurt; Post # 3

“Nazi symbols in German video-games” – More Than Just A Game | Frankfurt; Post # 3

The above set of slides are at least in part fictional. They are an attempt to recreate post-facto the comments I made as part of a panel titled “Youth protection, censorship & culture: is anything possible in computer games now?” at “More Than Just A Game | Frankfurt”. Jon

World Changing Game Ideas – Student Edition

World Changing Game Ideas – Student Edition

In Class 8 on October 31, 2018 the class did some group work creating a game with impact. The pedagogic purpose behind the work was the hope that having “built” a game no matter how ephemerally, the consequences of regulation of games in various guises could be explored more fully and functionally. That said (and […]

VR and our Scary Future

VR and our Scary Future

That video that we watched in class really stuck with me. It just seems like that is not only possible but very probable… Especially combined with the story about the man in Japan who married a hologram. It seems to be that having hologram replacements to meet our needs will become increasingly commonplace and I […]

Julia Reda – The Copyright Directive

Julia Reda – The Copyright Directive

I promised to upload Julia Reda’s website on the EU Copyright Directive, so here it is. I’ve also uploaded two videos from her website. If you already forgot, Julia Reda is one of the main opponents of the Copyright Directive. According to Reda the consequences of the Copyright Directive are far-reaching. Furthermore Reda has claimed that the […]

A.I.: What makes Human?

Exploration of identity of human has been a recurrent question.  I found that Ghost in the Shell (manga 1989; 1995 animated movie) illustrates well the though about human identity and AI when AI become aware of their existence. The main character has a human brain in a cybernetic body who works for a special anti-criminal unit. She has to stop the Puppet Master who has been […]