Digital development: Wired cultures

Neuronal Development: Specifying a Hard-Wired Circuit

The formation of neuronal circuits that relay distinct olfactory information is thought to depend on cues provided by pre-synaptic receptor neurons. But direct visualization of second order neurons in Drosophila now suggests that dendritic targeting occurs independently of interactions with incoming sensory neurons.

Wired shut: Copyright and the shape of digital culture

1 In digital format, music, documents, or other creative content is stored as code (numbers) that can be encrypted so that it is readable only with a key. http://computer.howstuffworks.com/encryption1.htm (last visited Oct. 7, 2007). Unlike content in analog format (cassette tapes, records, and traditional television and radio broadcasts), content in digital format is susceptible to perfect rep...

Computer Games and Digital Cultures

Wired Wired World: Breaking the Mosaic Mold

Many of us have been watching the recent goings-on at Netscape and wondering what it all means. The layoffs in general, the cancellation of in-house Java development, and the Communicator source-code giveaway have received most of the attention, but another unsettling item has gone largely unnoticed. As of February 1998, Netscape no longer maintains a staff of usability engineers. At its zenith...

Cultures of Digital Gamers: Practices of Appropriation

This essay will attempt to show that Anglo-American culture research can make a significant contribution to a better understanding of digital games, their production contexts and acquisition processes. A close examination of a game’s production context will shed light on structures, processes and ideologies which influence the development of a game on a conscious or unconscious level. The analy...