Re-imagining the Video Arcade : Pop-Up Indie Game Spaces and the Gift Economy
The creative and social spaces established by the Juegos Rancheros community through their monthly meet-up events and annual exhibitions at the Fantas...
Category: participatory
Openness in Practice: Public Lab Barnraising 2015
This weekend i have been attending the Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science’s (Public Lab) barnraising event at the LUMCON, a marine research...
Indie Game Community Gatherings and the Renaissance of Multiplayer Videogames
Humanoid worm-monsters that change size while wrestling for the possession of a ball in a sort of Greco-Roman arena; angry jelly babies with puffy buddies that ...
Indie Games Pop-Up Video Arcades
Nurturing aesthetic experimentation and alternative forms of production, distribution and consumption, the indie game culture has grown in the past decade gaini...
The World Wide Web as Social Media
The Internet is the most important socio-technological system that exists in the new networked communication environment. As a “network of networks” (Dutton, 19...
Fire on the Blue Genie Danger Derby Track
The third Blue Genie annual Danger Derby was fantabulous. Eighty pinewood cars with no-rules customized designs competed for the precious derby trophy and survi...
Crowdfunding: a New Method of Raising Financial Capital
Crowdfunding is a new fundraising practice that has evolved very fast and has spread globally. In a span of few years, it has gone from a method to collect mone...