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ProfileChristopher WalshEditor
Dr. Christopher Walsh is a Senior Lecturer in Educational ICT and Professional Development in the Faculty of Education and Language Studies of The Open University. He has worked on several pedagogical initiatives in the Australia, Thailand, the USA and Afghanistan. His current research projects include ‘Literacy in the digital world of the twenty first Century: learning from computer games’ funded by Australian Research Council (ARC) (2007-2009); ‘Maintaining and expanding HIV prevention programmes at Mplus+: Producing animations to educate MSM to fashion safe sex practices and address low perceptions of personal risk’ (Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO), 2008-2009) and ‘Expanding HIV prevention and outreach coverage @Mplus+’ (The Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), 2009-2010).
Articles by Christopher Walsh
Editorial
December 16, 2012
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Thomas Apperley & Christopher S. Walsh
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Editorial
Matthew Allen’s article “An education in Facebook” hones in on the contemporary debate on the role of Facebook in higher education. He maps educators’ initial enthusiasm and gradual disappointment with the social networking site, but suggests that its sheer ubiquity inevitably makes [...]
The game of educational teaching and research: Review of CCA-EDUCAUSE Australasia, 2011
December 15, 2012
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Michael Nycyk
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In April 2011, I attended the CCA-EDCAUSE Australasian conference in Sydney, Australia. It brought together a mix of Australian and New Zealand education and related fields professionals with guest speakers in the fields of higher education teaching and research from the United States and United Kingdom. This [...]
Book Review of Ian Bogost’s (2010) How to do things with videogames. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
December 15, 2012
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Dan Golding
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Bogost, I. (2011). How To Do Things With Videogames. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978 0 8166 7647 7.180 pages. USD 18.95.
How To Do Things With Videogames is Ian Bogost at his most McLuhan-esque. The book, a collection of very short essays on a variety of [...]
Reading regimes, orality and code: VilémFlusser’s Does writing have a future?
December 15, 2012
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Emmett Stinson
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Flusser, V. (2011).Does writing have a future? (Trans. Nancy Ann Roth). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN0816670234, 208 pages, $20 US.
The appearance of Vilém Flusser’s Does Writing Have a Future? (2011) in English translation almost twenty-five years after its original publication is undoubtedly a seminal event for [...]
Rebranding the platform: The limitations of ‘platform studies’
December 15, 2012
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Dale Leorke
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This article provides a critical account of Bogost and Montfort’s Platform Studies series, established in 2009 with their book Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System which aims to ‘promote the investigation of underlying computer systems and how they enable, constrain, shape, and support the [...]
Promoting emerging new media literacies among young children with blindness and visual impairments
December 15, 2012
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Meryl Alper
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When applied to a particular disability, the terms “technology” and “literacy” take on many layered meanings. This complexity underscores the lack of empirical research on the combined areas of young children with visual impairments, emergent literacy, and assistive technology. This article specifically examines theoretical overlap between [...]
YouTube viral videos and HIV prevention among African-Americans: Implications for HIV prevention
December 15, 2012
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Jocelyn D. Patterson & Khiya J. Marshall
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A viral video is a video which gains widespread distribution through the process of Internet sharing, typically through email, blogs, and other media-sharing websites, such as YouTube. Given the popularity of YouTube with African Americans, a content analysis was conducted to [...]
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December 15, 2012
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Thomas Apperley & Christopher S. Walsh
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An education in Facebook
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Matthew Allen
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For some years academics have debated the role in higher education of Facebook, the world’s most extensive social networking site. At first there was enthusiasm—it was a new tool that could be ‘repurposed’ for education; then, as Facebook became more widespread, its use seemed less [...]
An education in Facebook
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Matthew Allen
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