Category Archives: play
piracy as creative practice?
ars technica has an interesting summary/critique of a working paper, titled “File-Sharing and Copyright” by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf. Since the genesis and intent of most copyright law is to stimulate creativity — not to protect authors and publishers — Oberholzer-Gee & Strumpf argue that while file-sharing might be harming the music business (“might” [...]
Cookie Monsters published in CYE
Cindi Katz and I just published an article in a special issue of Children, Youth and Environments that focuses on Children and Technological Environments. CYE is an open access journal so you can read our article for free through their website (FYI – they ask you to create an account before providing access to [...]
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goodbye learning, hello workforce training
Some sad news regarding the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project:
Microsoft has joined forces with the developers of the “$100 laptop” to make Windows available on the machines.
According to Wired, Microsoft has had their sights on emerging markets in developing countries for a while now and have viewed low-cost children’s laptops as ideal vehicles for [...]
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we are the ones we’ve been waiting for…
From the conclusion of Chopra & Dexter’s (2007, p173) Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software:
Jacques Ellul imagined an iron cage constructed of technology (Ellul 1967), but never the possibility that the cage could be unlocked by its prisoners. We began with a historical note on hacking: the significance of hacking should [...]
Eight Takes on Play