by Jinnie Templin | Sep 22, 2014 | MA Project, Research
Some preliminary brain storming on variations of possible thesis statements, based on my research questions and the research I’ve done so far: With the increasing use of technology in/as the workplace, the way that adults exhibit play behavior has changed....
by Jinnie Templin | Sep 18, 2014 | Process
I was able to call 10 random words from Wordnik (with the appropriate formatting and no extra characters!) using the JSON examples we went through in class. After I finally got the words displaying correctly, I wanted to make them do something fun. I had originally...
by Jinnie Templin | Sep 18, 2014 | MA Project, Research
I’m reading The Ambiguity of Play by Brian Sutton-Smith this week. Sutton-Smith describes 7 rhetorics of play. The predominant modern rhetoric is described as “play as progress,” where children’s play (and notedly not typically adult play) is...
by Jinnie Templin | Sep 16, 2014 | Process
I’m trying to use the Wordnik Temboo Choreo to call a random word and make it follow the mouse. Eventually I’d like to evolve this sketch to call many random words to follow the mouse – I thought that would be a cool interactive “hello,...
by Jinnie Templin | Sep 15, 2014 | MA Project, Research
The following are questions I’ve been grappling with as I begin to narrow my focus for my M.A. Thesis research: 1. What are the socially defined boundaries between “work” and “play”? How can aspects of “play” and...
