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Is video game addiction real? |
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Written by Conor Munson
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Monday, 12 December 2011 15:01 |
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That’s the question posed by many researchers, with experts on both sides of the fence as to whether or not excessive gaming should be treated the same as other addictions like alcoholism and drug abuse. As the gaming world continues to progress and the games become more intuitive and lifelike, more and more people are content to sit in front of their gaming consoles, leaving real life behind in favor of the exciting world of virtual reality.
Online multiplayer gaming began gaining traction in the 90s, and since then the gaming world has evolved into a virtual playground, where kids and young adults engage in popular first person shooters like Call of Duty, or in role playing games (RPGs) like World of Warcraft and Skyrim: The Elder Scrolls.
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Sticks and stones and now, cellphones: A reflection on bullying in the Digital age |
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Written by Christine Ramos
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Thursday, 08 December 2011 14:05 |
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When I was a child (said with a gravelly weathered voice), we bullied with real fists, none of this high fluting technological stuff.
Note: I’m not an old man. I’m 29 years old. Part of the generation that saw the .com boom, the Y2K scare, a revolution drawn together via Twitter and Facebook. But the truth is, when I was a child my school was just getting a computer lab.
Kids, these days, are getting cellphones for Christmas or an iPod touch or some other device that in my child-mind, I’d envision one of The Jetsons owning. FaceTime – video conferencing with friends in real time still amazes me. Forgive me for sounding like a dinosaur.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 12 December 2011 15:04 )
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Online activism just doesn’t compare to the real thing |
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Written by Vanessa Gillard
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Thursday, 08 December 2011 13:59 |
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The road to activism today seems to have forked into the online world and the ‘real’ world. And while occupiers settle in or withdraw in the face of winter, impatient civic governments and a somewhat fatigued public, any discernible message that may have evoked real social change or even a discourse that went beyond the idea that the 99 per cent is broke and don’t enjoy it seems to have been lost among the cross talk that is Occupy.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 09 December 2011 10:24 )
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