Games stuff for class 3/28

Play Energyville

Watch #shellfail
See the Website & game.

icivic

Interactive Blog 2

So here's a creepy story about how Facebook knows everything about you. Try to relate it to our conversations about panopticons.

Groups for in-class activity 3/26/13:

The Maine Campus

Forbes

WUSF News

CNN

NYT

Local Leaks

What type of space is being created?

How has media changed the space?

What psychological effects are shaping space?

How close are we to reality?

Is the creation of this space ethical? Is the outcome ethical? Do the means justify the outcome?

First Interactive Blog Post

So here's the story about Derby Line, the town in Vermont that straddles the US-Canada border. In your response try to think critically about what we have been saying about space and place and constructed spaces. Feel free to give opinions, quote readings we've done, pull from class discussion, link to other related stories--whatever seems appropriate!

More about maps...

Just in case your spring break seems light on the rhetoric: