Funeral for a Phone
Lemme take you to the suburbs right outside Washington, DC, circa 2004. This is the advent of the cell phone. Not in general. Not...
Challenging Digital Media Studies
David Golumbia’s course “Challenging Media Studies” at Virginia Commonwealth University provides a topical survey of issues in current digital media studies. Dr. Golumbia passed...
The Male Domain: Exclusion of Women in Video Games | Kayleigh Connor
My fingers fly over my keyboard as I punch out the motions of virtual battle. Stab to the left, the right, fireball, heal, crack...
Internet Profiles: The Identities the Web Has Created For Us | Angela Polinsky
“We’re at the start of a revolution in the ways marketers and media intrude in – and shape – our lives.” (Turow 1-2). This...
A Stranger-web: The Death and Rebirth of the Chatroom
“…I am always reminded of how small changes in the details of a digital design have profound unforeseen effects on the experiences of humans...
Virtual Interworlds
What does it mean for something to be virtual? And what does it mean for something to be a world? These are the questions...