I watched one of Jane McGonigal’s TedTalks. It was about gamifying our real world problems to utilize the 3 billion hours a week that we’re playing video games to work towards the solutions. She talked about how gamers feel they’re not as good in reality as they are in games. I largely agree with this [...]
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TFranklin Reading Response Piercing the Spectacle
While reading this article I became interested as to what the author’s stance was and did come to an understanding as to what author was trying to say, but I was inclined to disagree. The author states that mobile games offer a slight “distraction” if you will, in order to waste time that could be used for taking the [...]
The Spectacle
While reading the “Spectacle” the only thing that really stood out to me was when she said “ meaningless, addictive junk.” In my head I felt like burning the woman alive. Sounds pretty harsh if I think about it but she attacked something that shouldn’t be messed with at all. It was if she was [...]