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Speaking about digital youth in the U.S. to university students at the University of Genoa and to women in the Associazone Italo Britannica in Chiavari was a fascinating experience across cultures and generations.

This is my first attempt at answering a prompt from NetSquared, which provides a monthly question called the NetSquared ThinkTank. You can find more questions and their corresponding answers aggregated on their website. Read on ...

New York Times writer Steve Lohr writes about "Two New Ways to Explore the Virtual Universe in Vivid 3-D," featuring the World Wide Telescope that Curtis Wong will premier at HASTAC II, TechnoTravels, in Southern California, May 22-24.

Here is the link to my recent post on the Technology-Supported Human-World Interaction Blog:

Urban Screens, Urban Interfaces, Digital Media, and the Arts in Social-Public Spaces

In this post, I review several articles from a special issue of First Monday on the topic of urban screens, and also provide a list references and links.

You spend a month in residence in Italy, writing many hours a day, and eating the other hours. Pasta at lunch. Pasta at dinner. Breadsticks. Wine with each meal. Dessert. Carbs, carbs, carbs . . . You even go on a food blow-out in Parma (cheese, prosciutto, all that). And, guess what, you can still fit in the skinny jeans. O, Michael Pollan! O, omnivore's dilemma! Maybe there really is a solution. Caveat emptor: This blog posting has nothing to do with new media.

Joking on the backchannel. Fun, yes. But what does it do to the front channel . . . (not to mention the nucleus accumbens) . . . ?

I've posted information about the recent Games for Health conference, inluding a link to my pre-conference presentation slides, on the TechPsych blog.  My talk focused on game accessibility for games and applications in K-12 settings.  (The two pre-conference strands were Virtual Worlds and Game Accessibility.)

Spending a month at a scholar and artists' residency like the inimitable and incomparable Bogliasco Foundation in Liguria not only changes your work . . . it changes you!

On May 16, the Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS) and the Museum of the Person are celebrating the International Day for Sharing Life Stories.

The following day – Saturday May 17 –  at 10 AM PDT the CDS is proposing a reflection on storytelling in virtual environments in the form of a panel in Second Life.