Week 4 - February 8 and 10,
2005
Cyberspace - Online Environments
- Tuesday: Global and Local Web Studies
- Tuesday: Group Project 5: Simcities and @culture
- Thursday: Online Games (Research Day)
Assignments
- For Tuesday:
- Geert Lovink, “The Digital City – Metaphor and Community,” Dark Fiber, 42-67.
- Scott Bukateman, “Terminal Space,” Terminal Identity 101-182.
- Lisa Nakamura, “’Where do you want to go today?’ Cybernetic Tourism, the Internet, and Transnationality,” Race in Cyberspace, 15-26.
- For Thursday:
- play some online games and keep a blog of your experience onyour e-journal (link below)
- read the online articles on gaming (links below)
- formulate a one-page questionnaire on gaming and interview at least 10 people on their online gaming habits/experience. Add your results to the blog.
Remember to post your weekly journal update to the Cyberculture @ Swarthmore community.
Links
- Urban Simulation
- Sim City 4
- Article on Virtual Reality/Sim City
- Timothy's and Brandy's SimCity Presentation
- Computer Game Research
- Jason Mui/Colton Bangs Gaming Presentation
- Game Studies - the international journal of computer game research