Posted by: designxpress on: March 26, 2008
In this book Brenda Laurel explains her personal journey and experiences with Purple Moon- the company she launched dedicated to create video games for girls. However, the games launched by Purple Moon were criticized as sexist- a belief that girls could not play regular action oriented games. And the company had to be shut down.
She [...]
Posted by: designxpress on: March 8, 2008
I have been wondering what methodology to use for my paper and approached this week’s readings in an attempt to answer this question. However, I was slightly disappointed. I had assumed that there would be distinctive methods that I could choose from and then apply to my topic. As I think of it now, the [...]
Posted by: designxpress on: March 3, 2008
As a cell phone user from Asia, I have been used to using cell phone extensively for all kind of things in my home country. But here in USA, there is not much I can do. For me this is surprising as this country has always been seen as the one that has better technology [...]
Posted by: designxpress on: March 1, 2008
I am glad I started my readings with Buffy Shutt’s “Research and the Movies.” This is because the rest of the readings then became logical when they talk about the combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods.
The craze for numbers can be misleading and yet movie marketers and researchers continue to shape their research to [...]
