"Picture the Impossible" named as finalist in the APME "Innovator of the Year" Contest
August 30, 2010Picture the Impossible, the alternate reality game created jointly by the Lab for Social Computing and the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle, has been named as one of three finalists in the Associated Press Managing Editors' "Innovator of the Year" contest. The Democrat & Chronicle will present an overview of the game at the APME annual conference in October, and attendees will vote on the final winner.
LSC Study on Social Media in the Classroom Gets National Attention
May 5, 2010Recent research by LSC associate director Sue Barnes indicates that the use of social media in classroom settings has little effect on building connections or social capital among students. Her work has received national attention in publications including Science Daily, Pysch Central.
Picture the Impossible Presented at 2010 Game Developers' Conference
March 10, 2010LSC Director Dr. Elizabeth Lawley presented an overview of the community-wide "Picture the Impossible" game as part of the Serious Games Summit at the 2010 Game Developers' Conference.
Liz Lawley delivers keynote at the 2009 Information Online conference in Sydney
January 20, 2009KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
Libraries as happiness engines
DigEnt Social Network featured in Research at RIT
January 7, 2009The 2009 edition RIT's semi-annual research publication, Research @ RIT, features the DigEnt Social Network. The DigEnt Social Network (http://digent.rit.edu) is an award-winning application of social computing technology to entrepreneurship education.
The feature include interviews with: LSC lab member, Victor Perotti, RIT student entrepreneur Colby Jordan, and west-coast serial entrepreneur Jamy Nigri.
ETCON Follow Up on GotGame?
March 9, 2004After being named one of the O'Reilly Alpha Geeks for 2003, Andy went on to write up a follow-up piece for his blog at GotGame? This set off an interesting back-and-forth discussion with Ross Mayfield, and while the discussion is now a bit dated, it is still worth reading.