This is my third and final post on the growing phenomenon of online gaming, and whether it should be considered a form of social media. My first post began by exploring why playing games online is a debatable social medium, whilst my second post questioned whether it should be considered a form of media in [...]
Online Gaming: Social “media”?
December 12th, 2008 by Adam · 1 Comment
This is the second part of my study into online gaming and whether it can be considered a social medium. The first part began by exploring the question of whether or not playing games online is social or anti-social and now this post will attempt to better understand what social media really is…
Before embarking upon [...]
Online Gaming: A social, or anti-social medium?
December 8th, 2008 by Adam · 3 Comments
Much of what we do on the Internet revolves around our obsessions. Generally speaking, people who spend hours on end browsing Facebook are obsessed with their friends. People who spend the best part of their day finding and listening to new music on Last.fm are obsessed with music. Whilst people who spend every waking hour [...]
QuakeLive: Back to the Future of online gaming
November 28th, 2008 by Adam · No Comments
I’m so excited right now I felt I had to let the blogosphere know why: I have recently received my long awaited invite to the closed beta testing of QuakeLive - a game that has the potential to utterly revolutionise the way we play games online.
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BoardReader: An effective tool for searching through the message boards
November 24th, 2008 by Adam · 1 Comment
During my time at R*M I have been conducting a lot of research around conversations, and a site that has been of great help during this process has been BoardReader.
It allows you to search within message boards, for relevent conversations; providing you with clear and concise information that is hard to find using other search [...]