The Game Learner

After my slightly all over the shop rant the other day about moral panics, sex and violence in video games, it’s nice to see someone explaining it all much better. Daniel Floyd is a professor at Savannah College of Art and Design and puts forward the well argued proposition that games need more sexual content (treated more sensitively) to become respected as an art form.

It’s about 9 minutes and takes something of a Yahtzee approach to storytelling and is well worth the watch.

Floyd on Sex in Video Games

This is an interesting video about the possible future of media and experience that I found on Jenny Weight from RMIT’s blog. It looks at where communication has come from, where the Internet is taking it and then goes on to hypothesise about how virtual worlds might be able to represent more and more of reality and what this means for our understanding of it.

It also reminds me a little of this movie, though doesn’t get quite so detailed in it’s examination of the possible evolution of the media in general and how information and knowledge might be managed. (Click on image to view video)