Posts Tagged as ‘youth’

June 17, 2009

Everything new is bad, but ‘everything bad is good for you’

Just watched a great clip over on FreshCreation.com of Steven Johnson the Author of ‘Everything bad is Good for you’. Johnson is asking us to consider if games had been invented 500 years ago and that books had only just been invented and were gaining popularity amongst young people. He argues that books would come [...]

May 15, 2009

BBC The Cut: The future of youth TV?

The BBC is to a launch a new series aimed at 12-17 year olds called The Cut. But this is not just another Grange Hill or Byker Grove , this series is embracing the new technologies available to the youth of today, as well as their new attitudes towards entertainment. The show will be aired [...]

April 3, 2009

Want an opinion on maximum social connections in the digital age? Just ask an X-factor reject

It’s hard to debate the notion that the Internet has increased the potential connections an individual can form. However, what is widely debated is the quality of these connections and relationships formed in the digital world. In 1992 Robert Dunbar proposed that the number of meaningful social connections we can successfully maintain is 148. Since [...]

December 4, 2008

Games with a Message

It’s has never been uncommon to find some serious ideological opinions within music and cinema. However you will have to look a little harder for the messages in today’s computer games. With games soon to outsell CDs and DVDs put together it might be about time they were used for a little more than entertainment. [...]