[iDC] The ambiguities of play

[Brian Holmes]

Michael Zimmer wrote:

>  Given the need to inject chaos into Web 2.0, and promote 
education
> of new users, how do we, in the words of Lovink, "avoid the double  
> trap of blind technophilia and luddite technophobia"?

Net discussions are often about protocol and rightly so. But 
the question of what you throw into the mix, the words, the 
sounds, the images, and how you point outside the devices of 
capture -- well, I'd say that's important too.

In echo and reply to Pat Kane's post yesterday, I put up a 
text on the ambiguities of play:

http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/games-corporations-distant-constellations

best, BH