Education & Culture

Author: Benjamin Jörissen

  • Avatar-Gastvortrag

    Ein kurzer Bericht über den interaktiven Gastvortrag, den Michael Lange heute in Second Life gehalten hat: Nach den üblichen technischen Schwierigkeiten (einige Zuhörer waren zum ersten Mal im Second Life, sodass die Voicechat-Funktion bei vielen zuerst nicht aktiviert war) konnten wir mit leichte Verzögerung beginnen. Herr Lange gab zunächst eine Einführung in die vielfältigen Möglichkeiten…

  • Gastvortrag "Avatare in Second Life"

    Am Donnerstag, dem 13.3.2008, 10-12 Uhr wird der (meines Wissens) erste öffentliche Gastvortrag der Otto-von-Guericke-Universität in Second Life stattfinden. Der Gastvortrag findet im Rahmen meines „Avatare“-Seminars vom letzten Wintersemester statt. Michael Lange vom Portal „Bildung in Second Life“ wird über die Möglichkeiten der Avatargestaltung in dieser virtuellen Welt berichten. Es wird anschließend Gelegenheit geben, sich…

  • International Journal of Internet Science – new issue is online

    The IJIS is a promising new open access journal. Here’s the TOC of the recent (second) issue: Volume 2, Issue 1 (2007) Ulf-Dietrich Reips & Uwe Matzat: Web 2.0, Internet 2.1? (Editorial) ArticlesUrsula Szillis & Dagmar Stahlberg: The Face-ism Effect in the Internet: Differences in Facial Prominence of Women and Men Marion Wittchen, Daniel Schlereth…

  • Ping … this blog is not dead … but so is the Berlin Metaverse Summit 2007

    This is just to proclaim that this blog is not dead … there’s a lot that I would have posted if I had not been so lazy had simply done it had not been so busy fighting against my student’s vampires on facebook only had found the time to do so. And besides, it turns…

  • Virtual Worlds vs. Digital Games ~ Web 2.0 vs. Web 1.0?

    Just stumbled upon that Blogpost of Alex Krotoski at the UK Guardian’s (digital) games stream entitled “Getting serious about virtual worlds”, where “Serious Virtual Worlds conference director David Wortley answers some serious questions about virtual worlds”. David Wortley ist also the director of the Serious Games Institute at Coventry University, and of course we listen…

  • New Journal: Eludamos. Journal for Computer Game Culture.

    The following information just had been spread over the cyberculture-mailinglist. Especially the title sounds very promising for those who recognize digital games a an integral part of digital culture(s). New Journal: Eludamos. Journal for Computer Game Culture. This new scientific, international, peer reviewed online journal deals with everything ludic and looks at digital games from…

  • Freebase – public alpha

    Freebase, a cutting-edge service that could turn out to be a milestone in semantic web technologies, is now in “public alpha”, which means everyone can access and use it. (Alpha is the new beta, you know …) Freebase gatheres its data from open accessible data sources such as wikipedia and does an obviously highly sophisticated…

  • Web 2.0 – Enlightenment

    This one’s a bit off-topc, I guess. On TED.com, there is a great video of Buddhist monk and scholar Bob Thurman talking about some core ideas of Buddhism, especially the interconnectedness of everyone and everything. It’s so humorous it really made me “lol”, so I wanted to share it. Interestingly, Thurman doesn’t evoke a mystic…