The Unbearable Literacy of Media: Travels in the Reality-Based Community
Ralph Beliveau / University of Oklahoma
Media literacy, youth, and the loss of historical perspective.
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The Unbearable Literacy of Media: Travels in the Reality-Based Community
Aspect Jumping
J.D. Connor / Yale University
A consideration of aspect jumping on film and television.
Rescuing Anita: Games, Gamers, and the Battle of the Sexes
Jennifer deWinter / Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Carly Kocurek / Illinois Institute of Technology
Violence in the online gaming community.
Habit-Change in the Mobile Present
Heidi Rae Cooley/ University of South Carolina
This first installment of a multi-part series draws on Michel Foucault’s “ethical living,” and Charles Sanders Pierce’s “habit-change” to offer a way to think about the possibility of changing habitual ways of being in the mobile present.
What Should We Call Reading?
Mara Mills / New York University
The slipperiest of activities: reading’s relationship to bodies, devices, symbols, and environments.