While finishing up my HCI seminar paper for Dr. J, I stumbled upon a movie called, Red State. Depressed from the last national race in 2004 and finding no solace in liberal groaning on the Internet, Michael Shea packed up a team of movie types and headed out of California to find out what people [...]
Virtual Activism: RootsCamp Second Life
RootsCampSL started today on a fake hill in the virtual land of Second Life. A transcript of the gathering is available online. I’m pretty new at the SL experience. We had to do some of this in the Sports Informatics class last spring, so my avatar — Old McDunnough — was still virtually living somewhere [...]
Extended Mind
There were a few other concepts Josh brought up in his recent talk (“Designing culture”). This is one of them: Extended Mind Andy Clark’s idea of an active externalism gives an active role to the environment in driving cognitive processes. Josh illustrates this with a tasteless joke about Helen Keller: “How do you mess with [...]