Digital Media

Grad student explores questions of race through digital technology

The technology to turn oneself into a mixed-race avatar might be confined to movies, but Brian Banton plays with racial manipulations of himself online, wrote the Toronto Star (online) Jan. 27 in a story that included five photos of him. As a York graduate student, he explores questions of racial hybridity as related to corporate […]

York study finds video gamers are in training for bigger tasks

Playing video games for hours on end may prepare young Billy to become a laparoscopic surgeon one day, a study from York University has shown. The findings, published online in the journal CORTEX, demonstrate that playing video games reorganizes the brain’s activity and can lead to better control of skilled movements. Alterations to the brain’s […]