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Nov 23

Being Blog: As Pocket God Enters Social Gaming on Facebook, What Will It Reveal about Our Moral Character?

Do you play Pocket God on iPhone? Will you play it when it comes to Facebook? What about the larger questions? What do you think Pocket God will reveal about our morality? Will social media be an arena for informal sanctions against the “immorality” of particularly vindictive or overly punitive “gods”?

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by Trent Gilliss, senior editor

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The popular iPhone gaming app Pocket God, which has sold more than two million units, is making its way to Facebook. What character will this take in a social gaming atmosphere, I can only imagine. But I’m sure my…

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About The Structure Whisperer

This is the blog for the sociology classes of Prof. Richard Hudak (Endicott College, the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Merrimack College). When I started this blog, I had been enjoying a lot of the TV series “The Ghost Whisperer” in reruns. In imagining what it might be like to talk to the dead, I began to muse that sociologists, too, were weird to the average person, and “have a gift” of being able to see the hand of social structure in everyday life. The Sociological Imagination is what makes us “special” or at least distinctive. But this is not a gift we have inherited, like Melinda Gordon of the TV series. Rather it is one that has been bequeathed to us by teachers before. For the past few years I have shared with my students a variety of internet content related to sociology. This is a more systematic effort to do so, and to give students the opportunity to create their own posts as well. Welcome to “The Structure Whisperer.”

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