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The Preserving Virtual Worlds project addresses a long-standing, ironic problem of online life: its resistance to archiving.
Interactive media are highly complex and at high risk for loss as technologies rapidly become obsolete. The Preserving Virtual Worlds project will explore methods for preserving digital games and interactive fiction. Major activities will include developing basic standards for [...]
I love the idea that our everyday world is overlaid with (or better yet, haunted by) a vibrant, fictive universe of characters and storylines, spin-offs and syndications. And so, apparently, does Dan Meth, whose Pop-Cultural Charts series maps much more than the geography of TV sitcoms. These maps are also, to be sure, a blueprint for the [...]
I love the idea that, as Ulla remarks in the comments, “we are really not that much more advanced than the 1700’s …” Perhaps we do, on the whole, tend to overestimate the degree to which new forms of social ties are historically novel. Maybe Facebook is merely the next phase, or version, of a much more [...]
Jo Guldi of Inscape has a provocative post up describing how she used available web-based tools to produce a rather sophisticated analysis of the use of the word pseudoscience in Wikipedia entries. Her hypothesis, to paraphrase, is that “pseudoscience” is less a rigorous, ’scientific’ term than a discursive ‘marker’ for attempts to delegitimize opposing arguments.
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