Meeting with Stefano

I had a very refreshing and interesting meeting today with stefano mastrogiacomo about Herbert's CLark theory, Activity Theory and spatial stuff. I think I am going to use this framework for my phd. Let's read Clark... I'll publish here a summary of the discussion later (no time at the moment) ...

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Territoriality in virtual space and video games

Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE I am wondering whether ther is no study concerning territoriality in virtual worlds such as video games's space : quake arena, everquest world... In those multi-user games, space is the cornerstone of interaction. Then studying how users (and group of users) appropriates...

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tv tv tv tv

Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE "le post-freudisme considère qu'à l'ère de l'information, ce n'est pas tellement la sexualité qui doit être sublimée, mais l'énergie dépensée quotidiennement pour regarder inutilement la télévision" Viktor Pelevine _ Homo Zapiens ...

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Parler gitan / gipsy slang

Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Pas mal utilisé en francais : bedave (fumer), bouillave (baiser), latchave (partir), perrave (pourri), balnave (poseur)... ...

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Sleeping in airports

Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE I fell down on this very instructive website : sleeping in airports which proposes stories about people who slept in airports. The site also gives advices and allows users to rank airports. ...

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Video games, Spatiality and social meanings

Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Espen Aarseth proposed that computer games can be classified by their implementation of spatial representation using different criteria like perspective, point of view or direction. He showed the importance of space for game aesthetics, I would like to go further by show...

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Une strategie pour le moins curieuse

Bookmarklets | MOVABLE TYPE Lu dans le Monde du 28/08/2003 : "Le premier ministre a ainsi évoqué, au cours de la réunion, la possibilité de supprimer un jour férié dans l'année afin de financer une partie du plan vieillesse. L'idée serait d'affecter le surcroît de cotisations sociales ainsi perçu a...

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