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Jeff Watson is an artist, designer, and Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Games at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
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Monthly Archives: November 2010
"For Fable III explicitly to take up questions about entitlement spending, taxation, resource…"
“For Fable III explicitly to take up questions about entitlement spending, taxation, resource management, and the long-term financial health of its fantasy nation, and then treat those questions in terms of shallow moral binaries, makes it a party to the … Continue reading
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"To put it plainly: I am absolutely committed to breaking scholarly publishing of its dependence on…"
“To put it plainly: I am absolutely committed to breaking scholarly publishing of its dependence on gatekeeping and transforming it into a Shirkyesque publish-then-filter model. No question. But our filters can only ever be as good as our algorithms, and … Continue reading
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“Personalization holds out the tantalizing lure of transformation, remaking information…”
“Personalization holds out the tantalizing lure of transformation, remaking information into a better reflection of the self.” (465) -Tara McPherson, “Reload”
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“[While] the web may indeed foster the related sensations of volitional mobility, scan-and-search, and transformation…”
“[While] the web may indeed foster the related sensations of volitional mobility, scan-and-search, and transformation, our understanding of these modalities needs another working through in order to discern how they underwrite particular spatialities and temporalities, enabling specific selves and particular … Continue reading
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“The web’s chunking [or experiential sequencing] is spatial as much as temporal; our experience of moving…”
“The web’s chunking [or experiential sequencing] is spatial as much as temporal; our experience of moving through these chunks may seem akin to our experience of television’s flow, but this is also a boundlessness we feel we help create or … Continue reading
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