Pleasure, Play, Participation, and Promise - Anya Ixchel At NMC
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Jun 7, 2007 11:09pm
Today at the 2007 NMC Summer Conference, live from Indianapolis, Angela Thomas, the RL avatar of Anya Ixchel, wowed an audience with her presentation that painted a vivid picture of the notions of “play” and identity in digital spaces. We did what we could to bring the experience into Second Life, with a live audio stream…. mostly live- due to some technical challenges, the stream kept cutting out.
Pleasure, Play, Participation, and Promise
We also had the slides available in world for our SL audience, along with the two videos she showed.
Our Sl audience was deeply moved my the first video, Take, created by a grade 5 Australian student, and we were allr rocking to The Zimmers “My Generation”. But in between all of that, Angela provided NMC a wealth of provocative ideas on how we look at the newest of new media.
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1. Fleep’s Deep Though&hellip | June 10th, 2007 at 8:23 am
[...] attending an excellent session by Angela Thomas from Sydney, Australia. I’ll have her book Youth Online: Identity & [...]
2. Kim Flintoff | June 11th, 2007 at 10:19 am
Great presentation and scarily similar to a paper I’ve been developing for the ICT2007 conference in Hong Kong - “Online Sites for Generative Play”…
3. Miton Broome | June 11th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Fantastic presentation Anya. Very inspiring. As a developmental Psychologist I think that your ideas are well grounded in theory. Children play to develop. Adults sometimes stop playing but the ‘dream’ continues mentally in the expression of their thoughts. Learning is a wonderfull topic to study. We are representation makers and play is the sandbox of our lives. I muse. I must get on with some real work and stop playing now.
4. Cross-Media/Transmedia En&hellip | June 22nd, 2007 at 3:15 am
[...] and I’ll be posting about that in a sec, but first enjoy Angela’s presentation as the audio and ppt are online at the New Media Consortium, and check out her site if you don’t already know about it. [...]
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