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Understanding Computer Game Culture: the Cultural Shaping of a New Medium
Jan Van Looy
978-3838332130 | £58.65 LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

In the past few decades, video games have developed from a marginal
technological experiment into a mainstream medium. During this period
they have gone through several transformations, from  arcade machines
offering a few minutes of solitary fun for a quarter to monthly
subscription-based online MMOs in which thousands of players spend

A PRism journal special issue on nonprofit organisation relationship building, edited by Richard Waters and Denise Sevick Bortree, is now online at http://praxis.massey.ac.nz/nonprofit_issue.html  As with all PRism materials,access is free.

We (Sarah Blacker and Justin Sully)

The above issue is now available online from Edinburgh University Press
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Contents

Creating Preschool Television: A Story of Commerce, Creativity and Curriculum

by Jeanette Steemers

(Professor in Media and Communication, School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster)
published by Palgrave.

Further details and a downloadable first chapter are available at

http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=283287

"Metaverses and 3D Environments", IV Congress of Cybersociety.
http://blogs.cibersociedad.net/blog/2010/03/01/metaverses-and-3d-environments/#more-109

We (Gloria Gomez-Diago) considered that the work submitted by Pierre L=E9vy ("Toward a Civilization

Visual Cultures

PLATFORM: Journal of Media and Communication
Volume 2 Issue 1 (January 2010)

OUT ONLINE!
http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/platform/vol2_1.html

Welcome to the second issue of *PLATFORM: Journal of Media and Communication, an online academic journal edited and comprised of work by a global community of graduate media and communications emerging scholars.

I (Ben O'Loughlin) just wanted to share the link to a working paper that I have just co-authored with Nick Anstead of the University of East Anglia. It starts to examine a sample of more than 40,000 tweets we gathered during a broadcast of BBC Question Time in the UK in October 2009. This episode was especially significant, as the programme featured Nick Griffin, leader of the far right British National Party, making it a highly controversial event.