Filed under: Radio | Tags: Addiction, Aliens, Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Boredom, Choice, Counterstrike, Drugs, Evil, Game Design, Game Developers, Gamers, Grand Theft Auto, Guns, Half Life 2, Japan, Killing, Oppressive Society, Pittsburgh, Psychology, Resurrection, Ricardo Washington, Rock Band, Shooters, Star Wars, Team Fortress, Terrorism, Valve Corporation, Video Games
Rick Washington
Rick Washington, a video games designer and teacher at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, explains the psychology of popular video games. He also discusses the growing field of serious video games, the four personality types of gamers, and the morality programmed into the games.
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Afghanistan, Belfast, Christmas, Democratization, EU, Humanitarianism, Ireland, Islam, Kidnapping, Michael Semple, Middle East, Pakistan, Politics, Reconciliation, Taliban, Tea, Terrorism, UN
Back briefly in Belfast, Michael Semple speaks about his experiences in Afghanistan, including those which recently put him in the headlines. Semple was expelled from the country on Christmas last year, after the Afghan President alleged that he engaged in unauthorized activity in the country. He works for the EU’s Special Representative in Afghanistan, focusing on reconciliation and democratization processes in the country. Semple speaks about his past decades of work in Afghanistan, the expulsion, and the notoriety that came with it.
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Activism, Afghanistan, Belfast, Derry, Ethnic Minorities, Gay Culture, Homosexuality, MI5, Politics, Puppets, Queen's University Belfast, Sesame Street, Sesame Tree, Terrorism, The Troubles, USA
Episode 4 starts off with Colin Wililams, an executive producer of Sesame Tree, the new local version of Sesame Street. Then it turns to politics, with a conversation with Mary Alice Clancy about the international dimension of post-agreement politics, and the Bush administration’s involvement here. Finally, Aidan McGarry speaks about his research on the situation of ethnic minorities in Northern Ireland and his activism within the lesbian/gay community here.
