Posted: August 28, 2010 at 11:25 am | Tags: anytime, anywhere., digital, future, Games, means, media, migration, Network, sites, social, young
In 2006, S. Craig Watkins participated in the MacArthur Foundation’s well-funded digital media initiative alongside a select team of scholars and tech experts. The goal was simple: to understand young people’s emphatic embrace of social and mobile media. Watkins went on to build a small research team that skillfully collected over 500 surveys and conducted 350 in-depth interviews with young adults, parents, and educators while visiting the online spaces where young people gather. It was a full-scale immersion into what Watkins calls the ?digital trenches,” and when he emerged, his understanding of the ways young people learn, play, bond, and communicate had become more detailed and dynamic.
It may come as no surprise that more teens are online than ever before?in fact 87 percent are. Consequentially, television is no longer the dominant medium it once was because young people are now spending an average of six to eight hours a day online. Watkins contends that most teens and twenty-somethings migrate online to share their lives with friends, something television simply cannot offer. As Melinda, a twenty-one-year-old student, proclaimed, ?What do people do without Facebook?” In other words, for young people today, if you’re not online, then you’re not really living?and the ubiquitous presence of their mobile phones, laptops, and iPods positions them at the center of our evolving digital landscape.
Timely and deeply relevant, The Young and the Digital covers a host of provocative issues?the influence of social sites like MySpace and Facebook; the growing appetite for ?anytime, anywhere” media and ?fast entertainment”; how online ?digital gates” reinforce race and class divisions; how technology is transforming America’s classrooms?and takes a fresh look at the pivotal role technology played in the historic 2008 election. Watkins also debunks popular myths surrounding cyberpredators, Internet addiction, and social isolation. The result is a fascinating portrait, both optimistic and cautious, about the coming of age of the first fully wired generation.
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Posted: August 20, 2010 at 12:25 pm | Tags: content, Games, generated, user
MMO games can do user generated content
THE INQUIRER Interview Now there’s a network killer
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Posted: August 18, 2010 at 12:25 pm | Tags: 'FarmVille', Games, mean, sick, social, spoofs, were
Do ‘FarmVille’ spoofs mean we’re sick of social games?
Even as Facebook titles like “FrontierVille” and “Restaurant City” continue to attract millions of players, interest in social games may be waning.
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Posted: August 13, 2010 at 7:25 am | Tags: algorithms, Computer, Games, Networking
Algorithms and Networking for Computer Games is an essential guide to solving the algorithmic and networking problems of modern commercial computer games, written from the perspective of a computer scientist. Combining algorithmic knowledge and game-related problems, the authors discuss all the common difficulties encountered in game programming.
The first part of the book tackles algorithmic problems by presenting how they can be solved practically. As well as “classical” topics such as random numbers, tournaments and game trees, the authors focus on how to find a path in, create the terrain of, and make decisions in the game world. Part two introduces networking related problems in computer games and focuses on three key questions: how to hide the inherent communication delay, how to utilize limited network resources, and how to cope with cheating.
Algorithms and Networking for Computer Games provides a comprehensive resource that offers deeper algorithmic insight into game programming and explains game-specific network considerations. Read on for…
- Algorithmic solutions in pseudo code format, which not only emphasizes the idea behind the solution, but also can easily be written into the programming language of your choice.
- A section on the Synthetic player, covering decision-making, influence maps, finite-state machines, flocking, fuzzy sets and probabilistic reasoning.
- In-depth treatment of network communication including dead reckoning, local perception filters and cheating prevention.
- 51 ready-to-use algorithms and 178 illustrative exercises.
Algorithms and Networking for Computer Games is a must-read text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students on computer game-related courses, postgraduate researchers in game-related topics, and game developers interested in new approaches and the theoretical background to games.
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Posted: August 12, 2010 at 2:25 pm | Tags: 2011, card, Games, Hoyle
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Posted: July 27, 2010 at 3:25 pm | Tags: crack, Games, It's, legal
It’s Now Legal to Crack Your PC Games
…but strictly for security purposes. New DMCA rules make it legal to rip your DVDs, jailbreak and unlock your phones too. Digital Millennium Copyright Act – DVD – IPhone – DMCA – Video game
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Posted: July 11, 2010 at 3:08 am | Tags: Games, Network, online, play, Possible, using, wireless
I am looking to play pc games like WOW and Counter Strike Source online. The problemis that I connect to the internet through a wireless network with a high speed connection. Somethies the reception isnt that great(like 11 Mbps). Would this cause a lot of lag issues while gameing?
Posted: July 9, 2010 at 3:08 am | Tags: Games, Network, online, play
I would like to know of a way to make a pc game (halo 2) think that I am playing a network game rather than an internet game though the internet with a friend because we don’t want to bother with windows live. So i was wondering f we need a proxy or do something els to make appear that we are in a network though the internet.
Posted: June 16, 2010 at 5:36 am | Tags: anywhere., enjoy, Games, movies, music, room
Enjoy music, movies, games anywhere in your room
Logitech has announced a significant extension to its line of multimedia speakers, delivering four new systems with 360-degree sound – including the System Z323 and the Logitech Speaker System Z523. Whether you’re at work using a desktop computer, at home using a laptop, whether you use a Windows-based or a Mac, computer, both Logitech’s new speakers just work – and sound great.Unlike standard …
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Posted: June 15, 2010 at 2:00 am | Tags: 20000, Games, netbook
- Over 20,000 games
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20,000 Netbook Games
Posted: June 11, 2010 at 3:08 am | Tags: Games, going, Hollywood's, success, wake
Games are going 3D in wake of Hollywood’s success
With 3D movies boosting both audience experiences and box office coffers, videogame publishers are following Hollywood’s lead and developing 3D games to immerse players more into virtual worlds.
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Posted: June 6, 2010 at 6:22 am | Tags: foods, Games, marketing, online, tool, Unhealthy
New Marketing Tool For Unhealthy Foods: Online Games
UC Davis public health researchers have found that children, who are already saturated with television messages about unhealthy food choices, are the targets of a new medium used to sell high-fat, high-sugar foods: advergames. Advergames are an entertaining blend of interactive animation, video content and advertising, exposing children for extended periods of time to online messages that …
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Posted: May 30, 2010 at 6:21 am | Tags: anytime, anywhere., digital, future, Games, means, media, migration, Network, sites, social, young
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In 2006, S. Craig Watkins participated in the MacArthur Foundation’s well-funded digital media initiative alongside a select team of scholars and tech experts. The goal was simple: to understand young people’s emphatic embrace of social and mobile media. Watkins went on to build a small research team that skillfully collected over 500 surveys and conducted 350 in-depth interviews with young adults, parents, and educators while visiting the online spaces where yo… More >>
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Posted: May 21, 2010 at 9:08 pm | Tags: deleted, easily, Games, Hidden, icons, windows
Windows 7 icons for deleted games can easily be hidden
QUESTION: I just bought a computer with Windows 7. It came with some trial games, and I deleted them after the trial period expired. However, the icons are still in Windows Game Explorer. How can I get rid of them?
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Posted: May 20, 2010 at 4:22 pm | Tags: also, Games, Like, Network, play, social, that's, website, what's
OK so theres like this website that is kinda like a social network in some ways but its not. And then you can go and play games and when you get points from that you can donate it to the charity of your choice i really can’t remember what its called and i want to go on it so bad.. HELP!! 
Posted: April 18, 2010 at 4:21 pm | Tags: corrodes, Games, hate, online, speech
Hate speech corrodes online games
It’s not just cyberbullets that are exchanged during firefights on the XBox Live version of “Call of Duty.”
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Posted: April 8, 2010 at 8:21 am | Tags: from, Games, Network, rockstar, social, unblocked
When I was registering, i ended up putting 1999 instead of 1989 as my birth year. So they blocked me from starting over. So far, I deleted my cookies and went back to the site, I am still blocked. HELP ME…
Posted: February 19, 2010 at 12:22 am | Tags: Games, good, networks, over, played, some
Hey, I’m looking for a few really good multiplayer games than i can play over a LAN network between me and a few people. Preferably they be racing or shooter PC games.
Posted: February 5, 2010 at 8:22 pm | Tags: each, Games, halo, link, play, together, Xbox
Like system link between 2 xbox’s. But instead with one xbox, and one PC playing halo on LAN with each other?
Posted: February 2, 2010 at 8:22 am | Tags: best, Games, Network, online, play, setup
My dad has setup a wireless Linksys Belkin 802.11g on my laptop computer and the router/hub thing is two stories down in the basement. I have a fluctuating internet connection, and I sometimes lag during Warcraft 3 (PLEASE WAIT) at unpredictable times.
What can I do to get a better connection? My dad wants to keep the router thing in the basement. Does it have to be down there? Can I move it one floor up? What does it connect to?
What is the common way to play online?
What is the recommended distance for a wireless setup?