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As computer programs make images easier than ever to manipulate, editors at a growing number of scientific publications are turning into image detectives -- and are alarmed at the level of tampering they find.
A game of tag called Humans vs. Zombies, played with Nerf dart guns, has raised controversy on some campuses — but it is played enthusiastically at Goucher College.
Colleges are uploading recordings of lectures to YouTube, where they are finding new audiences.
A terminally ill professor of computer science whose last lecture brought him fame describes what he expects to accomplish in the rest of his days.
Henry Jenkins is at the forefront of exploring how digital technologies are reshaping popular culture. He has won millions of dollars for scholarly projects. And he still finds time to serve as an intensely hands-on housemaster.
Feature about a Kansas State University professor and his students who are studying the culture of video blogging.
Cover story about how academics inspired by Wikipedia and blogs are rethinking scholarly books.
A scientist's computer simulations of the 9/11 attacks in New York have led him to raise questions about the Twin Towers' design and to become an advocate for skyscraper safety.
A library-scanning project brings public-domain books online and offers and alternative to Google's model.
In exclusive interivews, top officials from the National Archives discuss how they struck a classified agreement with the CIA spelling out how the two federal agencies would work together to remove documents from the archives' shelves for the purpose of reclassification
Review
of the book Trigger Happy, which argues that video
games have become cultural products worthy of serious consideration.
Look at an interactive history project by a prominent civil-war historian that gives users a chance to explore original archival materials at the click of a mouse.
Professors experiment with using the kinds of visual interactive environments from video games as virtual classroom spaces.
Review of the video game Crazy Taxi, which makes cab rides through Times Square seem tame in comparison.
Written during
a month-long journalism fellowship in Finland, this dispatch
looks at an event billed as the world's largest multimedia
party.
A teenaged girl who was molested by a man
she met in an Internet chat room faced unexpected challenges when
she opened up a Web site to tell her story, as many anonymous
commenters blamed her for what happened.
Review of the film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, a failed Hollyood attempt to translate a popular video game character to the big screen.
A look at how the role of the journalist changes during online chats hosted by newspapers, arguing that such chats increase reader interaction and make the newsgathering process more transparent.
An ethnography of a text-based virtual
environment, written back in 1994 but still cited in discussions
of online interaction.
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