This text argues that there the video game generation tackles life, and business, in ways that are markedly different from generations before them, most notably the Baby Boomers. This new way of life is argued to have come about due to the gaming generation’s experience with digital gaming, which informs their entire outlook on life. Gaming has ( Read more... )

Feature articles have been abandoned for creative nonfiction. Ie memoir. This is going to work so much better - one, now no more hunting down publications, not even having to specify an audience. Two, I think the genre fits the game better. It's all about stories and characters anyway. Three, I hate journalism/articles with a burning passion, while ( Read more... )

Huh, I stare at the top of my journal long enough to realise I have so much investment in the game I named the fragging blog after her.
*giggles* Kind of poetic.... given that it's dedicated to research into player investment.
Whoo, maybe I shouldn't sleep in and then have a coffee overdose. Or maybe it's a leftover from the wine and gigglefit last ( Read more... )

Firstly, I cannot make head nor tail of Ron Edwards GNS Theory. I'm not even entirely sure its a theory. But saying that no rpg player is ever happy, and that we are in fact all miserable beings because we don't properly understand GNS and therefore cannot reconcile our differences as players? Excuse me?  I enjoy myself when I'm playing, and did so ( Read more... )

Liz (my creative production supervisor) has gotten back to me, from (I think) her almost non-contactableness for the time being, while on the rural Queensland leg of her promotion travels. Apparently my ideas for my articles are going to work, or at least one of them will. Splitting into a general audience/gamer community distinction seems to be ( Read more... )

Monday: it all made sense
Tuesday: One drafting session in CRM and it all didn't make sense anymore.
Wednsday: Misery
Now: Saw my supervisor and IT MAKES SENSE. Until next CRM lecture.

Biggest problem was in that my research question didn't address my area of "expertise," namely professional writing/publishing/whatever it is we're calling it now. I ( Read more... )

Ethics clearance involves such questions as:

Does this research involve :
Any form of physically invasive procedure such as blood collection, exercise regimens, or physical examination, and which is not part of clinical management?
Any administration of any form of drug?
Physical pain, beyond mild discomfort?
Ionising radiation?
Use of human tissue ( Read more... )

I would certainly not survive without my supervisor. She puts everything in place, explains it all to me, AND helps me do my assignments ( Read more... )