VideoGames: Brain Gain or Drain? – Hello Avatar Author Interviewed
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This is Dr. Jayne Gackenbach and this week on Video Games: Brain Gain or Drain? we’ll be discussing avatars. What is an avatar? Classically they have been our characters in video games or in virtual worlds like Second Life, but our guest argues that avatars are now our online footprint. Beth Coleman, who received her […] The post VideoGames: Brain Gain or Drain? – Hello Avatar Author Interviewed appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.
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My interviewee this time is André Brock from the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa. His recent article in Games and Culture called ‘‘When Keeping it Real Goes Wrong: Resident Evil 5, Racial Representation, and Gamers” was the topic of our conversation. Brock...
Published 04/15/13
My interviewee this time is André Brock (http://grad.uiowa.edu/annual-report/2011/andre-brock )from the School of Library and Information Science at the University of Iowa. His recent article in Games and Culture (http://gac.sagepub.com/)called ‘‘When Keeping it Real Goes Wrong: Resident Evil...
Published 04/15/13
Published 04/15/13