Hi all, I was traveling this weekend, so I just saw Darren Purcell's email with the Arlo & Janis comic about social relations and technology. It reminded me that I wanted to post a link to this blog post and comic from Penny Arcade, a webcomic that is pretty big in the gaming world. Both of these are about the (relatively) recent news about Blizzard announcing that someone's real identity would be used to identify them in their online forums -- though they have walked back some of that after a pretty big backlash. The blog post (here) is pretty interesting, and has some good links included within: http://www.penny-arcade.com/2010/7/9/ The comic is pretty funny, but it is profane, so be warned if that's not your thing or if it's not safe for work viewing: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/7/9/ On a related note, the Penny Arcade guys often have some interesting things to say about online gaming and technology in general. Most of their comics are pretty sophomoric (as they'd no doubt be the first to admit), but they also pretty smart and are tapped in to the gamer community. It's good recreational reading if you are interested in seeing how the 20-30something gamer demographic feels about the tech world. Cheers, -Justin ------------------------------------------------------- Justin Reedy Doctoral candidate Department of Communication University of Washington ------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:01 PM, <air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Darren Purcell <dpurcell@ou.edu> To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:00:09 -0500 Subject: [Air-L] Comic reflecting changing social relations with technology Interesting comic about how the ease of using new apps changes social dynamics in a relationship, including roles vis-a-vis technology.

http://comics.com/arlo&janis/2010-07-22/

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