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Back to Down Under
I’m on my way Australia again. After a twelve hour flight from Frankfurt I currently get to spend some time on the Singapore airport, getting ready for another nine hours of flying.
So what brings me to the antipodes? Mainly research for my Ph.D. (which, I might add, is financially supported by the German Academic Exchange [...]
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Germany Retains Hypocritical Stance
As you might have read, a teenager went on a rampage at his old school in Germany, slaying at least 15 people before turning his gun on himself during a shootout with police.
As usual in my Vaterland, German media are having a field day accusing so called “killergames” of inciting such horrible acts. I [...]
Also posted in Jens Schroeder, Video Games Tagged amok, bild, counterstrike, germany, hypocrisy Leave a comment
How German Intellectuals Don’t Understand the Nature of the Internet. Or rather: Germany = Internet Development Country
I recently came across the so-called ‘Heidelberg Appeal’ initiated by some professor for German language and literature studies. In it, more than 1600 German authors, intellectuals and publishers lament that:
[A]t the international level, intellectual property is being stolen from its producers to an unimagined degree and without criminalisation through the illegal publication of works [...]
Also posted in Jens Schroeder, Politics Tagged democracy, elitism, germany, google books, Heidelberger Appell, ignorance, Open access Leave a comment
The New Music ‘Industry’: A German Example
As an addition to the Parker’s post about the future of the music industry (or lack thereof), here is an example from Germany of how the will to innovate can benefit everyone involved: in order to gain independence from the industry, hard rocking guitar pop band Angelika Express financed its last album by selling ’shares’ [...]
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The Cultural Background of (German) Digital Games
Over the course of the last two weeks I conducted a couple of interviews for my Ph.D. dealing with the was the perception of digital games differs in Germany and Australia. By talking to just a couple of people you can tell how the cultural history of a country also influences the way modern media [...]
Also posted in Jens Schroeder, Uncategorized, Video Games Tagged Ascaron, BlogCampaigning, DS, EGDF, Et cetera, germany, home computer, Kultur, Wii, Yager 1 Comment
Videogames on Wheels
One of the more interesting pieces of technology depicted in Vernor Vinge’s Rainbows End is that which allows users to put a skin over reality, just as we currently choose different themes for our operating systems and web browsers.
Thanks to some smart people working out of the Universität der Künste Berlin (“The Berlin University of [...]
Also posted in Online, Parker Mason, Video Games Tagged carcade, driving, future, insurance, vernor vinge, Video Games, virtual reality Leave a comment
Using the Web to Discover Talent
A friend of mine who’s a prospective movie producer asked me to act as music supervisor for his (yet to be finished) diploma project. He needed some authentic country and 50s old school rock’n'roll for the soundtrack. Unfortunately there wouldn’t be a budget – and he would need the worldwide rights for an indefinite amount [...]
Also posted in Jens Schroeder, Online, Social Media, music Tagged Facebook, Last.Fm, MySpace, Soundtrack 1 Comment
BlogCampaigning: Movin’ On Up