{"id":2234,"date":"2007-08-13T21:43:21","date_gmt":"2007-08-14T02:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2007-08-13T21:44:28","modified_gmt":"2007-08-14T02:44:28","slug":"what-we-can-learn-from-zombies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/what-we-can-learn-from-zombies\/","title":{"rendered":"What we can learn from Zombies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rushkoff.com\/\">Doug Rushkoff<\/a> explains <a href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2007\/aug\/peer-review-what-you-can-learn-from-zombie-movies\">how zombie movies are actually educational films<\/a> that teach us about our own culture and its failings in <a href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/\">Discover<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, Doug&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Screenagers-Lessons-Digital-Hampton-Communication\/dp\/1572736240\/\">&#8220;Screenagers&#8221;<\/a> (revised and renamed &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Playing-Future-What-Learn-Digital\/dp\/1573227641\/\">Playing with the Future<\/a>&#8220;) is subtitled <em>&#8220;Lessons In Chaos From Digital Kids&#8221;<\/em>; as <em>&#8220;Playing&#8221;<\/em> it was subtitled <em>&#8220;What We Can Learn from Digital Kids.&#8221;<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Do or did Kids == Zombies?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Rushkoff explains how zombie movies are actually educational films that teach us about our own culture and its failings in Discover. Interestingly enough, Doug&#8217;s &#8220;Screenagers&#8221; (revised and renamed &#8220;Playing with the Future&#8220;) is subtitled &#8220;Lessons In Chaos From Digital Kids&#8221;; as &#8220;Playing&#8221; it was subtitled &#8220;What We Can Learn from Digital Kids.&#8221; Do or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}