Comments(0) [A hilarious video for people familiar with the classic Mega Man video game series. From Nick. BK]
category: Gaming, Humor, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics, Technology
Comments(8) [No blog this week. I am presenting a paper in Louisville, Kentucky at the biennial Thomas R. Watson conference. BK]
category: Gaming, Life, Pedagogy, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics, Technology
Comments(3) YouTube, the world’s most popular video-sharing site, will start to sell music and video games and experiment with new advertising formats to grow revenue, executives said on Tuesday. […] Visitors to YouTube.com can buy songs from music videos they watch on the site by clicking on buttons that take them either to Amazon.com Inc’s MP3 […]
category: Literacy, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics, Technology
Comments(1) A new feature called Xbox Live Party will let parties of up to seven people chat and share pictures over a television screen while simultaneously playing games. The Personality Plus tool will let users create customized avatars that will represent them throughout the Xbox world. –Paul McDougall [I am interested in seeing how this new […]
category: Gaming, Literacy, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics, Technology
Comments(149) Female Power Emergency Up! DS promises to “Change your destiny in three months!” by measuring skills in love, fashion, beauty, diet, and fortune-telling(?!), then challenging girls to increase their scores. –Brian Ashcroft [Nintendo’s DS Lite offers numerous video games, but as a whole, Nintendo seems to be successfully expanding a gaming audience and I suspect […]
category: Gaming, Pedagogy, Popular Culture, Rhetoric and Poetics, Technology
Comments(8) [As a second-year PhD student in the Rhetoric and Writing Program at BGSU, my cohort is currently selecting committee chairs for our Prelim exams, which means we are beginning to develop potential dissertation topics. For many years, I imagined pursuing a dissertation arguing that modern comic book crossovers are remediated Greek myths reproduced in a […]
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