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Last month, I blogged about the 2012 Ravellenic Games as a Ravelry community event that encouraged participants to craft while watching the Olympic Games. The event was a huge success and was a source of inspiration and learning for many of the 10,000 participants who scrambled to start and finish projects, learn new techniques, and overcome many obstacles to cross... read more
I have had a longstanding personal and research interest in otaku--activated fans of Japanese animation, games, and comics. Science fiction writer William Gibson has called otaku “passionate obsessives” because of their boundless fascination with the minutia surrounding obscure and niche popular cultural forms. In many ways, otaku culture is my personal template for... read more
One thing is clear in our work at Texas City High School (TCHS) this year: students like to create their own media. Students at TCHS create their own YouTube channels, compose original music, comics, games, Tumblr pages, art work, and fashion designs. As young people’s use of social and digital media applications continues to evolve they are developing... read more
