Spencer Halpin's Moral Kombat, "a killer doc about game violence debate," says new media scholar Henry Jenkins.  You can now watch the indy documentary for free: @ http://bit.ly/ajYokh

Here's the abstract for my essay historicizing our tendency to blame youth for generational change and our tendency to scapegoat new media for social change.  It  just appeared in International Journal of Learning and Media.

I've been representing HASTAC and the Digital Media and Learning Competition this week at the wonderful workshop, "Etiology and Impact of 'Digital Natives' on Culture, Commerce, and Societies," that took place at KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea, and then at Bar Camp Seoul.   Among the excellent papers and conversations of the week were a number with Doug Gentile of Iowa State University.  I find his work, and the complexity of his thinking, to be some of the most exciting out there on games.  Plus, Doug was very willing to play along with me as I took paradigm after paradigm and turned it on the head, reasking each of his precisely articulated and elegant questions from the opposite point of view.   For many researchers as careful as Doug, my habit of inverting the assumptions is very annoying.  He was not only a good sport but he really engaged and engaged me.

Here are some of the highlights of those interactions.

I love Jack Dorsey's wry interview with The Onion, "I Never Intended for Twitter to be Useful." Isn't that what every educator, every newspaper commentator, every pundit has said about Twitter? It's useless, stupid, narcissistic, exactly right for this "dumbest generation" of narcisstic YouTube obsessed anti-intellectual, anti-social, anti-political dweebs. So then, how come it is being used by freedom-fighters worldwide? How is that possible? Read Jack Dorsey's not-even-a-gleam-in-the-eye interview here: http://tiny.cc/E06pJ