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Score one for posthumanism: at the University of Reading, they've developed a brain-like robot controlled by rat neurons. (Read about it here and listen to the report on The Skeptics' Guide To The Universe .) Apparently, the robot was able to "learn" within a week.Some (over)excited commentato...
Published on 08/26/2008 in Primrose Road | Read more ...
HyperHamlet is up and running. I saw an early version of this project presented at a conference in 2006, and its aims remain the same: it doesn't attempt to supply an edition in the sense of an editorial reconstruction, and it doesn't want to work backwards from the text. Instead, the project s...
Published on 07/04/2008 in Primrose Road | Read more ...
According to Wired (which incidentally this month also declared THE END OF THEORY!!!111!!5!!#1!!), there's a game/SIM called Zero Hour: America's Medic which is being used to train paramedics in disaster response. Basically, paramedics get immersed in one of three situations: an unusual flu ...
Published on 06/20/2008 in Primrose Road | Read more ...
FYI: There's a short writeup on the Arden project in this month's Wired , which includes "Ted Castronova's 5 Tips for Making Games That Don't Suck."
Published on 03/23/2008 in Primrose Road | Read more ...
Did anybody else catch last night's performance of Act I, Scene I of Hamlet in Second Life ? I don't regularly "play" Second Life (way too much to manage in Life #1), but since I'm writing a dissertation on Early Modern drama and new media, I had to check this performance out. (Hat tip to Int...
Published on 02/29/2008 in Primrose Road | Read more ...
Yesterday, I played Arden: The World of William Shakespeare for the first time. (Actually, I watched while a colleague "steered." Characters I control tend to walk into walls.) We encountered several characters from Richard III and the Henriad (and Perdita, who greeted us in the street at one...
Published on 02/17/2008 in Primrose Road | Read more ...
Most arguments against new media have already been made by either the Unabomber or Plato.
Published on 01/28/2008 in Primrose Road | Read more ...
"The FBI hunts down the most vicious criminals online," reads a half-page ad for the new thriller Untraceable , "but the most dangerous one is hunting them."I'll bet that in the world of American crime thrillers, the FBI hunts down criminals via Google searches. According to film and television,...
Published on 01/22/2008 in Primrose Road | Read more ...
A paragraph from (my) essay about how various new media educational resources attempt to recast interactivity as immersion: The view of hypertext as a “writerly” medium may in itself be limited. First, it views interactivity as the key to hypertext’s potential. Lev Manovich notes that in an envir...
Published on 12/03/2007 in Primrose Road | Read more ...
Arden I: The World of William Shakespeare , a virtual-world Shakespeare game, is now available for download. According to Edward Castronova's Terra Nova blog , the game, which is set in a Richard II universe, includes "Shakespearean quest lines; historically accurate tavern games; NPCs and re...
Published on 11/28/2007 in Primrose Road | Read more ...
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