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Paul Levinson’s New New Media captures essence of the participatory internet – Book Review

This is the missing textbook to the course that everyone is taking. In it Levinson not only enumerates the various classes of new new media and their relationships with older forms, such as newspaper to blog or television to YouTube, he also, through means of germane examples from the contemporary political and social sphere, illustrates the good, the bad, and the ugly of each of these new forms, making it an excellent primer for thoughtful engagement with the unfolding culture.

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Loyalist College Border Training from Kingston Life

  Read the pull article excerpted here from Kingston Life. Using Second Life, the popular “virtual world” Internet game, the Loyalist project simulates real-life scenarios for students in the Customs and Immigration program. It was created by academic and New Media Services manager Ken Hudson and his in-house team of animation arts students at the college’s [...]

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