Collections Online : Ravel and the piano. RAVEL - Piano Concerto in G Major. Art in the Picture.com - An introduction to art history. Games, metaphor, empathy… Reading some of Greenfield’s musings on the effect of games and digital media (“screen culture”, as she calls it) on young minds, I felt compelled to pick out three arguments she makes and find examples of where games in particular contradict her assumptions.
I am picking out only three of her claims because the others are well trodden areas of debate. She argues in The Times Fight Club piece from earlier this year that in games and other digital media activities, [...] there is “living for the moment”, where the emphasis is on sensory-laden thrill — the buzz of, say, rescuing the princess in a game. Www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/gg243376.pdf. Wikipedia. Webopedia. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.