Leighton Evans
@leightonevans.bsky.social
Going on about media, philosophy, politics and sport. Swansea City. Academic. Gamer. 🏴. ADHD. Personal views only. My books: https://amzn.to/2QmYuqC
Research call: looking for people who engage with generative AI in intimate contexts (images, chatbots, etc.)—personal or commercial. Anonymity is prioritised due to the topic. More info: www.Intimatecreationsresearch.com Intimatecreationsresearch@londonmet.ac.uk Please share if relevant.
Intimate Creations Research
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Digging into this edited volume on VR gaming from @leightonevans.bsky.social, and it's exactly what I've been looking for in terms of a teaching resource, even as VR gaming is sorta stalling out, lots of material in here helpful for understanding what went wrong. www.emerald.com/books/edited...
Virtual Reality Gaming: Perspectives on Immersion, Embodiment and Presence
This volume contains an Open Access Chapter. Offering a comprehensive and research-oriented survey of the complexities of VR gaming, emphasising immersion,
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In the dark Welsh valley, On the mountain side, Lay the little children, Close to where they died. Their little lives are ended, Before they reach their goal, Tender little children, Have paid the price of coal.
But you get arrested on sight for saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action". Saying those words is terrorism. Whereas this burning of effigies of refugees, that's just culture
The Journal@thejournal.ie · last yr.Effigies of migrants in a boat have been placed on a loyalist bonfire in Northern Ireland, prompting condemnation and calls for the display to be removed ahead of the pyre being lit. http://jrnl.ie/6757728
This why first-past-the-post is such a terrible system for electing a government. Full tortuous analogy in my latest Guardian article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
#otd On this day in 1894 (131 years ago) – The Albion Colliery Disaster, Cilfynydd; the second worst in Wales. 290 men and boys were killed. The youngest victim was only 13. One household in Howell Street lost 11 members. Company fined £12. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion_...
1/ You think you're reading local news. Illinois Valley Times. Tucson Standard. Arizona Today. But these aren't newsrooms, they're AI-run disinfo & propaganda machines funded by billionaires to manipulate your vote. Welcome to pink slime media. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue 🧵
Meta preys on your data. It takes 2 minutes to ask them to stop👇 action.goodlawproject.org/meta-this-ti...
This website shows the nearest 10 branches of Greggs to any point in the UK. I'm afraid to say there are a lot of places where it looks like a dot alasdairrae.github.io/steakbakespi...
Farage, Badenoch and the US far-right are all lining up to attack people with autism, ADHD and other conditions that indicate people might have special educational needs. The move is sinister, wrong and profoundly worrying. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04...
The far-right, autism, ADHD, SEND and the need to respect and celebrate diversity
Nigel Farage was at his very worst yesterday. As The Guardian reported: Nigel Farage has claimed that doctors are “massively over-diagnosing” children with special educational needs and disabilities ...
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I recently learned about inspection copies!! Free books!! 📚
In our first post of 2025, Katerina Girginova distills the Social Grammars of Virtuality report, reflecting on the motivations underlying this yearly review and delving into their insights on how we (should) talk about virtual and augmented reality. Check it out here: cavrn.org/talking-abou...
Talking about virtual and augmented reality
By Katerina Girginova
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However true it might have been in the past that our economic model generates the best or even the most economically productive use of resources, the idea it still does now is clearly bullshit.
Aftermath@aftermath.site · 2y agoMeta has spent over $100 billion on VR. aftermath.site/meta-horizons-...
It's here! Thrilled to announce my new book Media Studies: Industries, Texts and Audiences is now available! 📖 Order your copy here: bit.ly/4hL3VMW #MediaStudies #NewBook #Sage
This might be the most insane thing I've read about Swansea City since the mid-90s. I despised the former owners. The current ones need to be sectioned for their own safety.
Dazzler@realdazzler.bsky.social · 2y agoLike a tramp cutting out Butlins coupons from the Daily Star
The Games in the Zeitgeist Conference (@multiplaynetwork.bsky.social) will explore and celebrate trends in gaming culture in 2024 - sign up!! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/games-in-t... #MultiPlay #Gaming #GamingCulture #zeitgeist
Games in the Zeitgeist
Join us for our 'Games in the Zeitgeist' conference, where we explore and celebrate trends in gaming culture 2024!
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We seem to be living through a complete rejection of the ideals established during the enlightment. Does anyone know of any literature exploring this shift from this perspective? Not sure how to boost this post beyond my following viewership, so ideas welcomed on that too
New year, new book! Am so thrilled to see this coming through the last stages of the publication process. A tremendous effort by all contributors - "Mobile Heritage" will be out on April 8! See this Routledge link for all contributors: www.routledge.com/Mobile-Herit...
Chapters by @leightonevans.bsky.social, @profjohanna.bsky.social Alexander Herman @eyobderillo1.bsky.social @kathryneccles.bsky.social Kristen Casey, Emily Gould, Nick Herman, @leoba.bsky.social Junmin Liu @visaimmonen.bsky.social @erikmc.bsky.social Hafizur Rahaman, Maryvelma O'Neil, Andrew Yip
This article should be required reading for anyone commenting on the political effects of social media.
this is probably my favourite photograph of 2024, taken on a long May evening at the shipwreck on Rhossili beach in the Gower, Wales
'AI and memory' by Andrew Hoskins www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Article explores the impact of Generative AI systems on human memory and collective memory. These could change the way we access the past by creating an artificial image of the past and constantly reshaping it through interactions.
AI and memory | Memory, Mind & Media | Cambridge Core
AI and memory - Volume 3
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