Nick Taylor
@nickttaylor.bsky.social
Media professor at York U in Toronto. Happy to be here.
Grounds of Gaming is out from University of Indiana Press. It's about the places in which we play games, and who is and is not allowed.
https://iupress.org/9780253071231/the-grounds-of-gaming/
Grounds of Gaming is out from University of Indiana Press. It's about the places in which we play games, and who is and is not allowed.
https://iupress.org/9780253071231/the-grounds-of-gaming/
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At this point the AI grifters must be thanking their lucky stars that the education sector remains a dependable cash cow. Administrators buying into AI EdTech don't care about the errors because they will be dispersed among the frontline educators.
July 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
At this point the AI grifters must be thanking their lucky stars that the education sector remains a dependable cash cow. Administrators buying into AI EdTech don't care about the errors because they will be dispersed among the frontline educators.
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you will never actually "understand how oligarchs think" until you recognize that they very sincerely believe 99% of humans are NPCs and can't comprehend why the NPCs keep resisting the player character's commands, they do not have thoughts more complex than "I pushed button and nothing happen"
April 2, 2025 at 5:06 AM
you will never actually "understand how oligarchs think" until you recognize that they very sincerely believe 99% of humans are NPCs and can't comprehend why the NPCs keep resisting the player character's commands, they do not have thoughts more complex than "I pushed button and nothing happen"
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🚨Japanese convenience stores are endlessly fascinating. They are also precursors to platforms in Asia as I show in this newly published article.
I've been researching this lineage for years and am thrilled to share -out in Social Media + Society now! 🚨
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I've been researching this lineage for years and am thrilled to share -out in Social Media + Society now! 🚨
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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March 25, 2025 at 1:45 PM
🚨Japanese convenience stores are endlessly fascinating. They are also precursors to platforms in Asia as I show in this newly published article.
I've been researching this lineage for years and am thrilled to share -out in Social Media + Society now! 🚨
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I've been researching this lineage for years and am thrilled to share -out in Social Media + Society now! 🚨
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Great piece on all the gender-affirming care required in MAGA
In your face: The brutal aesthetics of MAGA
Does proximity to power rely on a specific look?
www.motherjones.com
March 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Great piece on all the gender-affirming care required in MAGA
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"for Elon Musk, the immediate utopia is the Mars colony, a project whose technological dependencies and challenges of extreme environments appear to mandate a highly selective society; tight, hierarchical organization; and total social and environmental surveillance as a foundation." 1/n
Towards a Critical Political Economy of Surveillance and Digital Authoritarianism
| Surveillance & Society
ojs.library.queensu.ca
March 17, 2025 at 1:32 AM
"for Elon Musk, the immediate utopia is the Mars colony, a project whose technological dependencies and challenges of extreme environments appear to mandate a highly selective society; tight, hierarchical organization; and total social and environmental surveillance as a foundation." 1/n
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Instead of using ChatGPT, why not just get a family member to lie to you while they set fire to a tree?
March 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Instead of using ChatGPT, why not just get a family member to lie to you while they set fire to a tree?
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If you like exercises in Doublespeak, you'd love the York University admin's statement about how their program suspensions will foster academic innovation as well as Truth and Reconciliation […]
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aoir.social
March 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
If you like exercises in Doublespeak, you'd love the York University admin's statement about how their program suspensions will foster academic innovation as well as Truth and Reconciliation […]
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Reminder that this is happening today at 15:00 EST!
News for MTL folks! We're having our book launch next Thursday at 15:00. It's absolutely free and open to the public!
If you're interested in platforms, livestreaming, content production and the cultural shifts around Twitch, this is the event for you.
milieux.concordia.ca/event/book-l...
If you're interested in platforms, livestreaming, content production and the cultural shifts around Twitch, this is the event for you.
milieux.concordia.ca/event/book-l...
Book Launch: Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch - Milieux
Technoculture, Art & Games Research Centre (TAG) is excited to announce the launch of Streaming by the Rest of Us: Microstreaming Videogames on Twitch, a new book by Mia Consalvo, […]
milieux.concordia.ca
February 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Reminder that this is happening today at 15:00 EST!
Hoo boy let’s see how quickly Dougie cozies up to Trump again now that he doesn’t have to worry about the pesky electorate for another 4 years.
February 28, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Hoo boy let’s see how quickly Dougie cozies up to Trump again now that he doesn’t have to worry about the pesky electorate for another 4 years.
So curious if this i) shapes any of the other myriad copyright + AI cases in play, ii) sends a (much-needed) chill through the AI hype machine and iii) will mean anything given the scorn the tech industry has for anything so quaint as ‘the law’
www.wired.com/story/thomso...
www.wired.com/story/thomso...
Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US
The Thomson Reuters decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rights holders.
www.wired.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM
So curious if this i) shapes any of the other myriad copyright + AI cases in play, ii) sends a (much-needed) chill through the AI hype machine and iii) will mean anything given the scorn the tech industry has for anything so quaint as ‘the law’
www.wired.com/story/thomso...
www.wired.com/story/thomso...
Today in intro to media studies: a little demo in circumventing google’s horrid AI Overview. Thanks to @arstechnica.com for the tip.
February 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Today in intro to media studies: a little demo in circumventing google’s horrid AI Overview. Thanks to @arstechnica.com for the tip.