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Metcalfes law

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The value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users in the system (n2)

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Moores Law

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Computing doubles every 18-24 month at same size and same cost

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Diana Kimball: history of pocket technology (5)

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Radio circuit > cellular:analog > cellular: digital > broadband:cdma > broadband LTE

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4
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Kate Shilton

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Participatory Sensing

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5
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Ludology

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Specific to games studies. How games are goal driven but also an experience of play

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Narratology

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Thinking about the game as a sort of story telling:drama with structure

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Games theory

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analysis of strategies for dealing with competitive situations where the outcome of a participant’s choice of action depends critically on the actions of other participants. Game theory has been applied to contexts in war, business, and biology.

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Golden Age

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Late 70s-early 80s. Computing power increases and size decreases

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Sandbox games

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Creative productive versions of creating identity and worlds

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Gameificaton

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Captures how you can turn anything into a game and it will help people learn: edu-tainment

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Rewards culture

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People get used to getting positive reinforcement

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Audience commodity in games

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Games open door of exploitation of children, turning them into something that can generate profit

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Role playing

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Games where you have to play cooperatively with other people

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Casual games

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Candy crush, words with friends

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Anita sakessian

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Feminist frequency, stereotyped women in video games.need to diversify

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3 ways of diversifying game development

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Online authoring tools, crowdfunding models to take away production from big studios, digital distribution

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Charles Davis

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Creative industry deliberately produce culture as a product or service and copyright protected: film, tv, music

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3 aspects of new media

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IT/communications networks/digitilized content

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Newness

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Relative, historical and mediated

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TCP/IP

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Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol

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Properties of www

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Open and decentralized, hypertext documents, easy to use

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Circuit of culture

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Representation, regulation, identity, consumption, production

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Affordances (3)

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Unexpected results from tech, uses of tech (social) can shape tech, negotiation

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Technical agency

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Shapes behaviour of users, controls freedom abilities

25
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GUI originally crafted by

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Xerox star

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Semiotics

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Teaches cultural meanings are political and related to power and ideology

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Meme

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Richard Dawkins: gene+mimeme ( to imitate)concept for discussion of evolutionary principles in explaining the spread of ideas and cultural phenomena.

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Limor shipman

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Hyper signification

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Erving golfmann

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Dramaturgy: performative

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Computer mediated communication: rains and wellman

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Personal, interacting with multiple people

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Haythorne Thwaite

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Strong, weak and latent ties: multiple channels

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Andrew watts

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Identity for global engagement

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Imagined collective

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Imagine yourself to be part of a group, always in communication

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Disintermediation

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Opening new platforms based on sharing economy- proams

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Common carriage

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The principle that internet service providers should enab,e access to all content without favouring

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Copyright

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Auto given to literary and artistic works

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Copyleft

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Alt licences such as Creative Commons

38
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Lawrence Lessing

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Internet regulators are law, norms, market and architecture

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Information highway advisory council

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Formed to consider the implications and recommend actions for the government on digital info arrival in homes concerns

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IHAC CONCERNS AREAS

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Create jobs, reinforces culture and provide access

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Aggregate data

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Taking a whole bunch of people’s information to make clusters to bring out patterns and trends

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Context collapse

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When you post something you have an imagined audience, sometimes people’s are seeing your info that are not apart of your imagined audience

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Affordances of network publics

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Persistence, replicability, scalability and search ability

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