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 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...
by Jinnie Templin | Oct 31, 2013 | Reflection, Research
The world’s first bitcoin ATM arrived in a coffee house in Vancouver, Canada this week. The ATM allows customers to exchange cash for digital currency or to cash out their bitcoin wallets. Many are predicting that we may see the Robocoin ATM start popping up...
by Jinnie Templin | Oct 8, 2013 | Reflection, Research
The government shutdown, which began October 1, has caused hundreds of thousands of government employees to be furloughed without pay. Among those furloughed in non-essential government organizations were many of the employees responsible for maintaing...
by Jinnie Templin | Sep 19, 2013 | Reflection, Research
In Lauren Goode’s article, “A Handy Guide to Deleting Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+ and More” she describes how to delete an account from various social media sites, as well as outlines what exactly it means to delete an account. One of the issues...
