The Constituent Media of Video Games (The Digest)
"By exploring McLuhan's famous aphorism 'the medium is the message', then, the phenomenon of video gaming centers can be viewed as a complex medium-of-media, made up of an underlying techno-genetic structure of user-independent (technical) media and user-specific (embodied) media." FULL VERSION available at http://arago.cprost.sfu.ca/digest/dec03/VideoGame.html

Robotics (The Digest)
"The word "robota" has several shades of meaning, most prominently "work". There is another sense that suggests "forced worker," or those who do such work are "slaves." Still another shade of meaning comes from Czech feudal history when "robota" referred to the two or three days of the week that peasants were obliged to leave their own fields to work without remuneration on the lands of noblemen..." FULL VERSION available at http://arago.cprost.sfu.ca/digest/pdfs/digest3.pdf

The Bias of Video Games (The Digest)
"Regardless of its precariousness or primitiveness, gamers today are more apt to remember Galaga than most games released since. In this sense, Galaga has conquered time, and might even make a 'game back' in the near future." FULL VERSION available at http://arago.cprost.sfu.ca/digest/pdfs/digest9.pdf

"El Fuego debe Calentar de Abajo" (Weblog del Ministero de Educacion")
"El especialismo es el legado par excelence de la era industrial, no de las sociedades industrializadas. La diferencia es sustancial, ya que ni siquiera en el pais mas industrializado de la Tierra, Estados Unidos, cuya filosofia altamente pragmatica reclama produccion, produccion y mas produccion, se ha conservado un nivel tal de especializacion en el plano educacional en general o a nivel de la curricula en particular..." FULL VERSION available at http://weblog.educ.ar/site/archives/000295.php

"La Ida, la Vuelta y la Tercera Posici?n en el Exilio de Gardel" (El Exilio de Gardel)
"...vale aclarar que nuestra historia est? plagada de desencuentros, que se manifiestan en car?cter de "idas y venidas", "partidas y retornos", "exilios y revanchismos reivindicatorios", todos s?ntomas de un eterno recelo que deriva de la falta de un proyecto de Naci?n, y que ha afectado primero a poderosos hombres de estado, luego a talentosos artistas e intelectuales, y por ?ltimo al com?n denominador de la gente. La cultura del "desencuentro" no es cosa nueva en la Rep?blica Argentina; data de casi doscientos a?os, remont?ndose a las v?speras de la Revoluci?n de Mayo." FULL VERSION available at: http://www.elexiliodegardel.org/idayvuelta.htm

The Gaming Room (SFU News)
"Video-game giants like Nintendo and Microsoft are spending mega-millions to develop the perfect gaming console for future home entertainment centres. But Laureano Ralon (left), an SFU communication undergraduate and co-op researcher with the new media innovation centre (NewMIC) at Harbour Centre, says they may be missing an important media trend emerging well outside the home: multiplayer computer gaming centres..." FULL VERSION available at http://www.sfu.ca/mediapr/news_releases/archives/news11130204.html

(De)formaci?n Virtual: Una Mirada Cr?tica a las Desventajas de la Educaci?n que se Viene (Weblog del Ministerio de Educaci?n)
"En la medida en que la "aldea global" contin?e organiz?ndose de acuerdo con los principios de eficiencia y practicalidad dictados por la mano invisible del mercado, una mutaci?n de lo concreto hacia lo virtual comenzar? a vislumbrarse m?s y m?s - fen?meno que ser? discernible en el ?mbito del entretenimiento, del trabajo, de la educaci?n, y en muchos otros `milieus' de interacci?n e intercambio social. Se trata de una tendencia que se inici? a mediados de los a?os noventa con la llegada de Internet y aunque fue recibida con aplausos en nombre del progreso, poco se dijo acerca de sus desventajas o lo que se dijo fue ignorado en funci?n del "enamoramiento" que la irrupci?n de esta posibilidad medi?tica trajo a la comunidad ilustrada del mundo..." FULL VERSION available at http://weblog.educ.ar/site/archives/000251.php

The Devil's Galaxy (The Digest)
"From the perspective of the ordinary moviegoer, the show is terrible; Georgia Straight's John Lekich gave the movie a not-so-enthusiastic review a couple of weeks ago, and I don't blame him. From a iuse valuei standpoint, however, Daredevil may very well be a precious visual aid to a select few ? those university students struggling with the work of Canadian media guru, Marshall McLuhan..." FULL VERSION available at: http://arago.cprost.sfu.ca/digest/pdfs/digest8.pdf

Blasting into Accoustic Space: The Reversal of Video Games Perspective (The Digest)
"In the context of video games, perspective refers to the way that the main character positions the gamer in the narrative in relation to other characters and therefore how "involving" the game is. The evolution of perspective is a useful indicator of change within the sphere of video games..." FULL VERSION availble at http://arago.cprost.sfu.ca/digest/pdfs/digest8.pdf

Carta al Ministro de Educacion (Site del Ministerio de Educacion)
"Con gran orgullo le comunico que mi articulo nacio a raiz de declaraciones suyas. Comparto totalmente con usted la nocion de recuperar la autoridad del gobierno para precisarle a las universidades lo que el pais necesita en terminos de profesionales que se graduan en esa Casa de estudios, de cara a las necesidades del nuevo modelo economico..." FULL VERSION available at http://weblog.educ.ar/site/archives/000182.php