Tag Archives: video games

Link Ch. 10 – A Fish Named Grayson is Playing Pokemon for a National Audience

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Ralph Hanson

As I worked on the fifth edition of Mass Communication: Living in a Media World during the summer of 2014, a fish named Grayson was playing the video games Pokémon Red and Blue on a Game Boy emulator using a motion sensor … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 10 – 75,000 people are viewing, playing a single game of Pokeman Red online

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Ralph Hanson

Guest Blog Post Today we have a guest blog post from the UNK forensics coach Aaron Blackman (who is also my Nintendo video game mentor) about a big group of video gamers who are playing and watching a play-through of … Continue reading →

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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Ralph Hanson

Who has America’s oldest college newspaper? At least eight different papers claim the title.  Of course, each paper uses its own standard to determine the “oldest.”  (Thanks to College Media Matters from the Associated Collegiate Press) How sexist were ads … Continue reading →

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Link Ch. 10 – Who plays video games?

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Ralph Hanson

Who likes to play video games?  Just about everyone.  Here are a pair reports on the topic from Pew’s Internet & American Life Project: Adults and Video Games More than half of all American adults play video games of one … Continue reading →

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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

Was this the source of a Castle plot? Who knew the pizza story from last year had a grain of truth in it?  Of course, @jayrosen_nyu was talking about the NY Times stating flatly in a story that something was … Continue reading →

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We Wants It

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Ralph Hanson

What was once a April Foolsie is now real:

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