Center for Digital Discourse and Culture

All new report for 2007 released December 4: "This MediaWise Video Game Report Card is the twelfth issued by the National Institute on Media and the Family, an independent, non-partisan, non-sectarian, nonprofit organization. The MediaWise Video Game Report Card provides a snapshot of the interactive gaming industry with a focus on issues related to the welfare of children and teens. The full Report Card is available at www.mediawise.org."

In a recent post on her Spellbound Blog, MLS graduate student Jeanne Kramer-Smyth writes about Memory Archive. This new MediaWiki-based site is intended as an "encyclopedia of memories," where anyone may contribute a memoir on any topic. Thanks to Jeanne for both bringing this project to our attention and mentioning our April 16 Archive in her discussion of memory sites based on the Omeka platform.

The CDDC is pleased to announce that it is hosting a mirror of Technologies of Play: Video Games and Gender, an online learning module written and produced in 2003 by Brent Jesiek and Donna Augustine at Virginia Tech.

"GlobalVote (www.theglobalvote.org) has been launched to contribute to the debate on decision-making processes within major international organizations such as the UN, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. This will be done by collecting the opinions of the international online community, and by disseminating these polling results to International Organizations, universities, the media, and national governments."

"The Cape Town Open Education Declaration arises from a small but lively meeting convened in Cape Town on 14-15 September 2007. The purpose of the meeting was to accelerate the international effort to promote open resources, technology and teaching practices in education. The participants represented many points of view, many disciplines and many nations.