Immersive virtual worlds in university-level human geography courses

Rethinking popular geopolitics in the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute: Creative diplomacy and citizen statecraft

“…The geographical circulation of creative devices like advertisements and their dissemination are also critical to consider. The advertisement was first broadcast across national television networks in Argentina on the 2 nd May 2012 and soon after 'went viral' online (Dittmer 2010a). This meant that the advertisement and the geopolitical messages therein were transmitted nationally and then globally very quickly as it was posted on social media platforms (including the Facebook and Twitter accounts of the President and senior government ministers) and news portals (Dodds 2007;Pinkerton et al 2011).…”

“…Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other online forums/blogs have become the places where the sovereignty dispute is being thrashed out and governments, politicians, marketing agencies, veterans and your average Falkland Islanders, Argentines and British people are calling the shots in different ways. This is not to the exclusion of traditional media, and this paper will explore some of the new complexities in tracing the connections between 'new' and traditional media in terms of their circulation and production (Woon 2011) and, in so doing, will consider the connections between virtual/non-virtual spaces (Dittmer 2010a).…”

Unpacking frames of reference to inform the design of virtual world learning in higher education

“…Further, the relationship between digital games and educational uses of virtual worlds has been charted explicitly in the UK literature (e.g. Dittmer, 2010). Yet, there are challenging elements to these relationships.…”

Predictors of Scientific Understanding of Middle School Students: Socioeconomic Status

“…Nanoscience education, also known as nanotechnology focuses on the various applications of how nano-sized particles can be employed to teach students scientific concepts (ESANT, 1999;Kumar & Maslin-Ostrowski, 2008b). Nanoscience education is just one of the outgrowths of the innovations in science; others include virtual reality and virtual learning (Dittmer, 2010), which is done through a virtual program called Second Life. Though this program is revolutionary, it is not available to all student populations, thus making the Digital Divide even wider.…”