Few mainstream video games are made聽鈥 or marketed聽鈥 with women in mind, even though nearly 40 per cent of video game players in the United States and Canada are female, wrote the Toronto Star March 4, in a story about two Vancouver women who own a game development company. The likely reason? Few women are […]
Humanities聽Professor Jody Berland will take a critical look聽at how militarization has become so common in society that it is now seen as the norm. Berland's lecture,聽鈥淐ultures of Militarization鈥, takes place today from 4聽in the聽Vanier Senior Common Room, 010 Vanier College. All are welcome. The lecture's title and topic are borrowed from聽Cultures of Militarization, which Berland聽co-edited聽with […]
A special double issue of TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 鈥 also being published as a book 鈥 examines the role that militarization plays in our lives and its effects on civic culture. 鈥淐ultures of Militarization,鈥 edited by Jody Berland (right), professor in 91亚色鈥檚 Department of Humanities, and Blake Fitzpatrick, professor in the School […]
You can read how researchers from the Centre for Vision Research at 91亚色聽used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine the effect of video-game experience on the neural control of increasingly complex visuomotor tasks in young men, in the October issue of Cortex, an Elsevier journal, wrote MediLexicon.com Sept. 27: Lead author and PhD […]
Professors' SSHRC-funded project involves research collaboration with the Toronto District School Board A project led by 91亚色 Faculty of Education Professors Heather Lotherington and Jennifer Jenson at Joyce Public School in North 91亚色, and funded by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC),聽has received two awards. The 91亚色-Joyce Public School Multiliteracies […]
Six 91亚色 students聽have won聽five awards for their research on Asia or Asian diaspora this year from the 91亚色 Centre for Asian Research (YCAR). Vanessa Lamb (right), a second-year doctoral candidate in geography, is the 2010 Vivienne Poy Asian Research Award recipient. Her research interests include the politics of the environment and development, feminist political ecology […]
Playing video games for hours on end may prepare young Billy to become a laparoscopic surgeon one day, a study from 91亚色 has shown. The findings, published online in the journal CORTEX, demonstrate that playing video games reorganizes the brain鈥檚 activity and can lead to better control of skilled movements. Alterations to the brain鈥檚 […]