{"id":453,"date":"2014-01-14T20:26:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T04:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/?p=453"},"modified":"2014-01-14T20:26:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T04:26:55","slug":"introduction-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/2014\/01\/14\/introduction-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;m Griffin! I&#8217;m a fourth\/fifth year Computer Science major, finishing up my last term at UVic. I&#8217;ve been a tech-nut my entire life, so a course focused on applying this to society definitely sounds like something I&#8217;d enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>One of the topics I&#8217;m most interested in regarding the digital world has always been video games, as well as how they affect society and culture. Working for a social video game startup here in Victoria, I&#8217;m very passionate about games, and think that it would be great to cover their relation to society in this course.<\/p>\n<p>I plan to work on a video game centric augmented reality project, in whichever way I can have it fit the criteria. Further than that detail, I&#8217;m unsure where I will go specifically, however aiming towards a game provides me a good starting point as I&#8217;m highly experienced in all sorts of game development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;m Griffin! I&#8217;m a fourth\/fifth year Computer Science major, finishing up my last term at UVic. I&#8217;ve been a tech-nut my entire life, so a course focused on applying this to society definitely sounds like something I&#8217;d enjoy! One of the topics I&#8217;m most interested in regarding the digital world has always been video &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/2014\/01\/14\/introduction-9\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Introduction<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":880,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course-site-category"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/880"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/ts400\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}