On Monday I am defending my dissertation via video conference to New Zealand, a semi-public review of a five year effort. I even got written up in a tome on Internet ethics, after being interviewed on my made up on the fly research methods. ...

(this is posted on behalf of Ashley Funkhouser - greglas) Dear Terra Nova readers, I am an undergraduate researcher at Trinity University who is part of the Worldplay Research Initiative. Our collaborative research project explores transnational...

I have been discussing violins with my neighbor, violinist Alex Kerr (who is both classy and world-class). Once made, a violin matures over the course of hundreds of years. It comes to produce sounds of unparalleled high quality: voice,...

On many occasions, I've had to stress to people that Facebook really is not a virtual world.  Even Farmville is just barely in the virtual world category for me.  Still, the latest uproar over new interface changes reminds me a lot of the uproar...

Sort of apropos of Ted's post, take a look at this short essay in The Guardian: "To come out as a gamer is still to risk looking a social n00b: Even with sympathetic friends, we still speak low when we speak games." This certainly is not true...