The first program in the series of instructional training programs exposes the underbelly and not so glamorous side of the digital game industry. The inequitable relationship between the industry's multibillion-dollar profit margin in contrast to actual labor conditions is addressed. By following a mock instructional training program participants learn about precarious employment in the areas of overseas digital game manufacturing and distribution. A virtual "personal trainer" created in Second Life leads participants through a series of training exercises that use motion detection and require full range of body motion to play. The popular classic arcade games Dig Dug, Tapper, Space Invaders and Tetris are recontextualized to "train" participants for jobs in mineral mining, printed circuit board assembly, box build and global shipping. At the end of the training program, participants can gauge their "global market value" based on their performance. The training programs are designed to be viewed on multiple formats: as an interactive public installation; and as an online web cam game that can be played on a home computer with an inexpensive web cam. The motion detection is created with the video object in Macromedia Flash 8.. + Informações

perpetual motion: footnotes november 18, 2011 inequity choreographer: emily dawson performer: emily dawson. + Informações

ARC's Seth Wessler sits down with Vincent, a Detroit native who finds himself unemployable because of a prison sentence he served 25 years ago. Vincent is one of millions of qualified, dedicated workers made unfairly jobless and vulnerable to exploitation by an incarceration system with no statute of limitations. The need for incarceration reform is one of many factors that hurts our economy and keeps our communities of color at a perpetual disadvantage. Photos courtesy of www.flickr.com under a Creative Commons license. As posted to Racewire.org. www.racewire.org. + Informações

"The Road to Copenhagen" Q&A session with the Climate Change Secretary, Ed Miliband MP, on Monday 30 November 2009. Several hundred people attended a Q&A session last night hosted by Labour's Parliamentary Candidate's Chuka Umunna. If elected, Chuka will be the first MP for Streatham to be who grew up in the area. TTB is thrilled that he clearly aspires to work towards helping us solve our deepening environmental crises. Lambeth Town Hall was filled to capacity with local residents and several groups of second form students who participated in a Q&A session on one of the last days before Ed Miliband's departure for Copenhagen. Both Chuka Umunna and Ed Miliband made a case to move swiftly towards a strong deal in Copenhagen. Unfortunately, Ed Miliband failed to answer the questions that desperately needed addressing. Global networks of environmental grassroots activists are organizing in preparation for the fact that we have very little faith in an upcoming deal in Copenhagen. The Copenhagen agreement will not solve our problems because: 1. The climate crisis shows that its impossible to have infinite growth on a finite planet. The Sustainable Development Commission's report 'Prosperity without Growth' describes how 'perpetual economic growth is totally at odds with our scientific knowledge about the finite resource base and the fragile ecology on which we depend for survival'. The negotiations at Copenhagen do not address this dilemma. 2. The climate talks are put .... + Informações

Linda Rae Murray, MD MPH, is president of the American Public Health Association. She is chief medical officer for the Cook County Department of Public Health of the Cook County Health and Hospital System in Illinois.. + Informações

Larry Brilliant, Executive Director, Google.org Jane Wales, President and CEO, World Affairs Council and the Global Philanthropy Forum Part of the Global Philanthropy Forum 2007, a project of the World Affairs Council of Northern California.. + Informações

Introduction to Theory of Literature (ENGL 300) In this lecture, Professor Paul Fry examines the work of two seminal New Historicists, Stephen Greenblatt and Jerome McGann. The origins of New Historicism in Early Modern literary studies are explored, and New Historicism's common strategies, preferred evidence, and literary sites are explored. Greenblatt's reliance on Foucault is juxtaposed with McGann's use of Bakhtin. The lecture concludes with an extensive consideration of the project of editing of Keats's poetry in light of New Historicist concerns. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Origins of New Historicism 06:16 - Chapter 2. The New Historicist Method and Foucault 10:56 - Chapter 3. The Reciprocal Relationship Between History and Discourse 19:24 - Chapter 4. The Historian and Subjectivity 26:12 - Chapter 5. Jerome McGann and Bakhtin 30:28 - Chapter 6. McGann on Keats 45:54 - Chapter 7. Tony the Tow Truck Revisited Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu This course was recorded in Spring 2009.. + Informações

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