It’s time for the tech world to get serious about users. Users, of course, have always been a part of the tech world, and there’s no denying that their tastes, opinions, and preferences have been business and design concerns for … Continue reading
After six months studying at Cambridge, the time has come to undertake a final dissertation project. As an M. Phil in Modern Society and Global Transformation (just Sociology really), I have been challenged to think about the ways in which … Continue reading
The destitute Irish are woven as tightly into American history as an Aran sweater. The Potato Famine and its economic outfall (perhaps more deadly than the blight itself) sent the Irish around the world, with a host of them settling … Continue reading
It is the Fifth of November and my Oxford Dictionary of Sociology is dog-earred to “cultural relativism.” Perhaps I should add that I am in the United Kingdom. In Cambridge specifically. Studying, if you must know. The connection between these … Continue reading
or, the perpetual need for binding and boundaries in discourse “You can’t win, Darth. If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.” – Obi-Wan Kenobi The book has not, and will not, die. … Continue reading
the divide between physical reality and the “second,” virtual reality of cyberspace has been overexposed and polarized, constantly imagining the 21st century citizen at first one end of the spectrum and then dramatically shifted to the other. but this is … Continue reading
Dear employers of the world, Stop cheaping out on the young ambitious people of the world by offering only “unpaid internships.” It’s class warfare anyway you cut it, and unless you are quite literally a mom and pop establishment, I … Continue reading
we are tired of division: media, culture, society, law, meaning, humanity, and so on. these are interconnected terms, defined by one another. they must be re-united. explication has been held prisoner by written language for too long. as if we … Continue reading
It has become completely impossible to ignore the massive social, economic, and cultural implications of video games. It is an industry that has outsold cinema and publishing for years. Its myths and characters have escaped consoles and computers for popular … Continue reading
If Avatar has changed anything about then movies, then it has changed everything. Let’s begin by considering what depth means to cinema. Historically, depth has only existed as a perspective, the idea taken from painting and camera optics that all … Continue reading