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The Rise of Videogame Economies | Off Book | PBS Digital Studios
- Published_at:2014-03-17
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- description: While players of multi-player games are aware of their in-game economies, their growth and complexity would surprise many outside the world of gaming. With hundreds of millions of players around the world, MMOGs' in-game economies generate massive...
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The Rise of Artificial Intelligence | Off Book | PBS Digital Studios
- Published_at:2013-07-11
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- description: Artificial intelligence is an ever evolving goal for researchers, and the object of endless fascination for writers, filmmakers, and the general public. But despite our best science fiction visions, creating digital intelligence is incredibly...
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The Beauty of Space Photography | Off Book | PBS
- Published_at:2013-05-23
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- description: Space presents a fantastic mystery to human life. Unfathomably large, with characteristics that defy our experience and understanding, the stars have perplexed and amazed humanity for our entire recorded history, and likely before. In the present,...
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The Art of Data Visualization | Off Book | PBS
- Published_at:2013-05-09
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- description: Humans have a powerful capacity to process visual information, skills that date far back in our evolutionary lineage. And since the advent of science, we have employed intricate visual strategies to communicate data, often utilizing design principles...
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The Future of Wearable Technology | Off Book | PBS
- Published_at:2013-04-25
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- description: As computing moves from our desktops to our phones, we look into the future to see how technology will become increasingly ingrained in our movements and our active lives. From the Nike Fuelband to Google Glass, consumers are already seeing hints of...
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The Art of Illustration | Off Book | PBS
- Published_at:2013-02-14
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- description: Illustrators articulate what a photograph cannot. Using an array of techniques and styles, illustrators evoke stories and meaning in a variety of mediums, from editorial illustration in magazines and newspapers, to comics books, to activist media. And...
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The Impact of Twitter on Journalism | Off Book | PBS
- Published_at:2012-11-16
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- description: The world of journalism has changed in the internet era. Newsrooms are significantly smaller now than they were 10 years ago, and news is no longer a once-a-day product, but instead a constant flow of information. The rise of Twitter brought concerns...
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The Creativity of Indie Video Games | Off Book | PBS
- Published_at:2012-10-04
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- description: The video game industry is now bigger than Hollywood, with hundreds of millions of dollars spent developing these interactive experiences. But there are also small-scale developers working in the indie game realm, creating unique and experimental...
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The Art of Web Design | Off Book | PBS
- Published_at:2012-09-20
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- description: The explosion of the internet over the past 20 years has led to the development of one of the newest creative mediums: the website. Web designers have adapted through the technological developments of html, CSS, Flash, and JavaScript, and have...
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Can Fandom Change Society? | Off Book | PBS
- Published_at:2012-09-06
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- description: Before the mass media, people actively engaged with culture through storytelling and expanding well-known tales. Modern fan culture connects to this historical tradition, and has become a force that challenges social norms and accepted behavior....
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The Art of Glitch | Off Book | PBS
- Published_at:2012-08-09
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- tags: Off Book, PBS, Glitch Art, glitch, Kornhaber Brown, technology, computers, digital, Phillip Stearns, Vade, Anton Marini, Daniel Temkin, Scott Fitzgerald, punk music, aesthetic, The New Aesthetic, pixels, jpg, computer files, editing, live performance,...
- description: Glitches are the frustrating byproduct of technology gone awry. Wildly scrambled images, frozen blue screens, and garbled sounds signify moments where we want to throw our expensive computer products out the window. Many artists and programmers,...
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