Final Blogpost For Real

Besides popular belief that video games are bad for you, which I don’t buy into, I think video games aren’t bad at all. I have been playing video games for over ten years and I don’t feel that I am any more aggressive or violent because of them. The one thing I think video games [...]

blogpost 25

Skeletal Draft/Distillation of argument

The summary of my issue is that I’ve been studying this sub-culture, video games, for over 3 weeks and all my research has pointed towards the idea that video games are bad: video games induce violence and aggression. This doesn’t seem right to me. I’ve been playing video games for over ten [...]

Blogpot 24

My topic is video games. All of my research has led towards the idea that video games lead towards violence and aggression. I don’t believe this. I have been playing video games for over ten years and I don’t feel aggressive or violent. I believe that the way you are raised makes you violent or [...]

Blogpost 23

today in class we discussed the part of our final that has to do with youtube! we learned that we were special because we sacrificed and came to class and werent lazy like the people who didnt come to class. for the part of our final we had to find a consaversal video on youtube. [...]

Blogpost 17

Blogpost 1-16
1.  Digital Wild August 30, 2007
2.  Internet of the World after reading September 4, 2007
3. Blog post 3-I Have a Dream September 4, 2007
4. Blog post 4- Media Unlimited September 6, 2007
Funny Pictures and Movies
5. Enders game pick and respond to quote September 11, 2007
6. Enders game pick and respond to quote 2 September 13, 2007
7. Respond [...]

Blogpost 12 hapland

today in class we played the internet game hapland. I was the first person to start cheating in this game because i couldnt take not beating it anymore. i think its pretty much impossible to beat the game without a cheat. one little wrong move and you dont beat it. theres about 25 things to [...]

Blogpost #20

“She rolls over, abandoning this pointless parody of sleep. Gropes for her clothes. A small boy’s black Fruit Of The Loom T-shirt, Thoroughly shruken, a thin gray V-necked pullover purchased by the half-dozen from a supplier to New England prep schools, and a new and oversized pair of black 501’s, every trademark carefully removed. Even [...]

Blogpost 18 convergence culture

In my life convergence culture has occur by one item taken control of many items. This goes along with the black box theory. It was my new cell phone I got. Not new now, but six months ago it was new. It was my lg vx8300, a vcast cell phone. It’s the one with the [...]

Slideshow

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blogpost 9

Out of all the sideshows I saw today, all which were very good; I noticed a lot of random pictures. I liked these random pictures a lot because they made me think. Liz had one picture of a bloody television. This showed how bad television can be. Most of the people’s slideshows had basically the [...]