Links for December 2nd
- Inform 7
Inform is a design system for interactive fiction, a new medium for writers which began with adventure games in the late 1970s and is now used for everything from literary narrative fiction through to plotless conceptual art, and plenty more adventure games too. Since its introduction in 1993, Inform has become a standard tool.
Tags: tools software writing intereactive narrative fiction storytelling - Wired 14.04: The Culture War
The indecent foreign dance called the Waltz was introduced … at the English Court on Friday last … It is quite sufficient to cast one’s eyes on the voluptuous intertwining of the limbs, and close compressure of the bodies … to see that it is far indeed removed from the modest reserve which has hitherto been considered distinctive of English females.
Tags: reference moral outrage progress objection - Digital Youth Research
“Kids’ Informal Learning with Digital Media: An Ethnographic Investigation of Innovative Knowledge Cultures” is a three-year collaborative project funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Carried out by researchers at the University of Southern California and University of California, Berkeley, the digital youth project explores how kids use digital media in their everyday lives
Tags: youth technology research - Mimi Ito – Weblog
I am a cultural anthropologist studying new media use, particularly among young people in Japan and the US.
Tags: youth technology web anthropology - Hotel Dusk: Room 215
Tags: games - Georgian history | Bow Street Runner | Channel 4
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