test out your blog.

Test out your case study.

Write a list of general terms related to NMTs.

- Convergence.
- Linear/non-linear.
- Digitisation.
- Personalisation.
- Interactivity.
- Democratisation.
-Peer-to-peer.

Write a list of key terminology related to your chosen technology.

- Sony Playstation 3, Microsoft X-Box 360, Nintendo Wii.
- MMO (massive multiplayer online).
- RPG (role-playing game).
- EDi – Electronic Distribution initiative.
- Sony’s Game 3.0 philosophy- emphasising social interaction, community, customisation, open -source.
- Blu-ray disc.

From your blog, select 10 statements (stats, quotations) that you have found during your research which relate to debates on audiences’ changing experiences, institutions response on technology, the future etc. NAME ANY SOURCES.

- "It's about community, collaboration and customisation," said Sony's Phil Harrison at the Game Developers Conference, in San Francisco. "The industry is on the threshold of a new era of creativity, collaboration, communication and commerce embedded into an experience to empower games.” – BBC News article.
- "Online gaming is now more interesting than offline living, and when you can get everything from your food to your benefits delivered to your door, there really is very little excuse for going out." – Guy Browning, The Guardian.
- "The new machine includes an advanced Cell processor, which Sony claimed would make it superior to anything else available in the console world, as well as a Blu-ray high definition disc drive which the company hopes will become the successor to the popular DVD format." – Bobbie Johnson, technology correspondent for The Guardian.
- “Teenagers about to scramble for the "Rolls-Royce" of games consoles" – Paul Lewis and Bobbie Johnson, The Guardian. Teenagers and children now judging each other on the type of games console that they have.
- In the first 6-7 months of ‘Second Life’ over 5 million accounts were created.
- "Gamers today, instead of being thrown into a universe created by teams of designers, can grow their own world, inhabited by any shape of creature they can imagine."
- "Too often in today’s society we want to push the blame elsewhere, and not accept personal responsibility for those things over which we can have a great deal, if not full, control. All this finger pointing may make us feel better about ourselves, but it does precious little to solve any real problems."
- "As a parent or guardian, do you not have the power to turn off the console, take away the potato chips, and simply order your child to go outside and play???"
- "Gamers today, instead of being thrown into a universe created by teams of designers, can grow their own world, inhabited by any shape of creature they can imagine."