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33 minutes
Released:
Jul 16, 2018
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One of the most successful recruitment tools the U.S. Army ever made was…a video game? Sometimes without even knowing it, gaming elements in technology — often designed for addiction — are incentivizing you to think certain ways and do certain things. Join Veronica Belmont and co-pilot Ashley Carman as they explore the rise of gamification in our everyday lives, its positives and negatives, and its future.
IRL is an original podcast from Mozilla. For more on the series go to irlpodcast.org
Ashley Carman is the co-host of the tech podcast, "Why’d You Push That Button?"
Natasha Dow Schüll has written several books including Keeping Track and Addiction by Design. She uses the Freedom App to lock herself offline.
Long before the Internet, games were a source of entertainment, comradery, and learning. The rise of technology-enabled games to take on video form, and gaming as we know it became popular. Big Tech now gamifies most elements of our online life. The more you know about the evolution of games and why we are all so connected to them, the more you can see how they’re used to sometimes make online experiences better and sometimes more addictive. Here's more on the games we play online, from Mozilla.
Leave a rating or review in Apple Podcasts so we know what you think.
IRL is an original podcast from Mozilla. For more on the series go to irlpodcast.org
Ashley Carman is the co-host of the tech podcast, "Why’d You Push That Button?"
Natasha Dow Schüll has written several books including Keeping Track and Addiction by Design. She uses the Freedom App to lock herself offline.
Long before the Internet, games were a source of entertainment, comradery, and learning. The rise of technology-enabled games to take on video form, and gaming as we know it became popular. Big Tech now gamifies most elements of our online life. The more you know about the evolution of games and why we are all so connected to them, the more you can see how they’re used to sometimes make online experiences better and sometimes more addictive. Here's more on the games we play online, from Mozilla.
Leave a rating or review in Apple Podcasts so we know what you think.
Released:
Jul 16, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (54)
The Neutral Zone: The Future of Net Neutrality: The Internet (at least in the US) is at a crossroads as the FCC is considering rolling back the net neutrality regulations it adopted in 2015. If net neutrality is abolished, the Internet could shift from an essential service that all consumers can access to a product that can be packaged and sold to the highest bidders. Get to know the potential winners and losers on both sides of the issue. by IRL: Online Life Is Real Life