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In Barbara Herr Harthorn's lecture, she discussed her recent study of perceptions of nanotechnologies in the United States and United Kingdom.

A major difficulty for the research teams was the low level of knowledge of nanotechnologies in both countries. As such, the teams decided upon an innovative methodology to triangulate results. "Deliberative forums" were conducted. These forums integrate reasoning with deliberation and interpretation. A workshop was designed to promote self-activated learning.

A mashup, according to Wikipedia is "a digital media file containing any or all of text, graphics, audio, video, and animation, which recombines and modifies existing digital works to create a derivative work." Every year DJ Earworm creates a mashup of the top popular songs of the year and makes it available via MP3 file.

Rene Weber from the Communication Department spoke at CITS's Faculty Lecture Series on December 5 on the topic of Video Games: Motives, Responses and Consequences.

Some interesting highlights from Rene's talk:

* The video game market is huge. Children and young people play quite a bit, but the average age of a video game player is 35 years old.

Giovanni Vigna spoke on October 23 about his work as part of a security team looking at electronic voting machines. A video of the talk is below.