Many of our users are students, educators, poiticos, and other fabulous folks. We can now proudly include in those ranks, Joyce Neys, a Ph.D. student who just finished her Masters from Universiteit van Amsterdam.
Some months ago she collected results on websites that had online games as a tool of political motivation. She found that online games seemed to provide greater awareness and retention for users. She is now working on her Ph.D. on “Pleasure and pain in gaming”- the general motivations for players to (keep) play(ing) videogames. Good luck on the Ph.D. Joyce and thanks for researching us and including us in your Master’s Thesis.
I received this in a forwarded email this morning with the subject line “Is this possibly Fantasy Congress worthy?” I thought for a second, shared it with Andrew and Arjun, then concluded quite abruptly: “Yes, yes it is.” And so here is a picture we thought light-hearted and humorous enough to share.
Speaking of pictures, we’re glad to see that many users are taking advantage of their profiles and uploading their own pictures. If you tried and had trouble with that, give it another shot. We had a bug in there for a few days but it’s fixed now.
Also, in case you didn’t notice, until you have uploaded a picture to your Fantasy Congress profile, we take the liberty of holding that space by assigning you a random politician silhouette! So if you don’t like looking like Ian’s artistic rendition of Janet Reno’s shadow, then upload your picture instead!
