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Sony will be holding its next “PlayStation Vita Heaven” event in June. Sony Computer Entertainment Japan CEO Hiroshi Kawano made a teaser mention of the event in Famitsu this week, but did not share a specific date.

The first PlayStation Vita Heaven broadcast was held in early March. The event consisted of a collection of YouTube videos offering new footage of upcoming Vita games like Persona 4 The Golden, a release date for Metal Gear Solid HD Edition, a first tease for the game that would become Soul Sacrifice, the announcement of Phantasy Star Online 2 for Vita, and a few other news bits.

Responding to criticism following the event, Kawano said that Sony would be making appropriate changes for subsequent installments.

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Welcome to another post at the confluence of personal writing (this blog, obviously) and dissertation work. Today, in order to sort out some of my thoughts on the similarities between organizational communication and interpersonal communication, I will consider how we can conflate the two, allowing conclusions from organizational research to reach into interpersonal communication. Such bridging is useful because organizational communication research has lead the field of research on the effects of different communication channels, starting in the late 1970s and early 1980s. These types of questions were largely ignored in the realm of interpersonal communication until much more recently. As I have no interest in letting a wealth of past research go to waste, it is vital to find ways to bridge the two areas.

The challenge inherent in this bridging, however, is that organizational communication research is driven by one fundamental assumption: In business, individuals and organizations are driven by efficiency as a way to increase profits. This assumption is largely a normative one; that is, we can state it most accurately by noting that this drive should be present. Fair or not, this particular assumption is hugely useful because it removes a large source of variance in communication channel use before it can be considered. Instead, the research can focus on what best practices are and what happens when those best practices are followed or violated. Research demonstrating that best practices are not followed can be dismissed as simple error variance; the fact that companies don?t perform at maximum efficiency is an issue for other researchers, not for the study of communication.

This helpful assumption, however, is not so clearly present in interpersonal communication. Efficiency is not what drives interpersonal communication, and claims that it should be are difficult to support. Instead, relationship goals could be argued to drive interpersonal communication, but these goals are particularly complicated. Sometimes, our goals are to grow closer to someone. But other times, we wish to antagonize or ignore as a way to make the relationship more distant. This complexity results in a dizzying array of goals that we must consider to successfully understand the processes that drive communication channel selection.

One way that this issue is dealt with is to focus on ?relational maintenance behaviors,? things we do to keep up with the people who matter to us. This solves the problem of goals because it dismisses a whole host of relationships. By focusing only on those people who are meaningful to us, we can now make normative claims about relationships: people engaged in relational maintenance are driven to stay close and grow closer to others.

This seems like a much safer presumption, but here?s the problem: Though the claim may be true of almost everyone (most everyone has a desire to be close to people), the skills that surround this goal are much more varied, and the understanding of these processes is much more complex than the assumptions in organizational communication research. In other words, we all want to maintain our relationships but we often aren?t very good at it. This could be dismissed as error variance, except for the fact that our maintenance behaviors fluctuate widely between relationship types and even within types and within particular relationships themselves. We can go from keeping up close contact and deep friendship with a roommate to speaking to that person just once or twice a year within a matter of months.

If we see this pattern from the outside, we might conclude that the relationship had gone from seeking closeness to seeking distance. This conclusion is likely wrong; instead it is just the nature of relationships: Proximity matters. But how can we use this observation to understand relational maintenance behaviors? Is it fair to assume we are driven to be close to people, if the people we seek can be so hugely influenced by convenience?

This all suggests the need to disregard information about communication networks and instead focus on general tendencies of individuals; for example, we can ask individuals generally about their efforts to maintain relationships, rather than asking both them and their current friends to report on behaviors. Unfortunately, this type of research does not solve the problems I?ve outlined; it simply ignores them and settles for a much simpler research agenda. Simple isn?t necessarily bad and there may be significant differences between individuals (for example, individuals who report skillful use of communication channels report more close relationships or relationships of a higher quality than individuals with less skillful use), but it does present a problem in using conclusions from organizational research in the study of interpersonal communication. As for how I will deal with this issue? alas, this blog post was not able to solve the problem.

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1. The Challenge of Researcher-Centric Communication Channel Research
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A young gaming fan shows off his Nintendo love with a domino montage that clocks in at around 3 minutes and 30,000 fallen dominoes.

If you?ve ever held a controller or whiled away the hours of a long trip with a handheld device, than you?ve probably played a Nintendo game in one form or another. The Japanese gaming company has been making toys since 1889 but it didn?t begin gathering legions of fans until the 1980s with the Nintendo Entertainment System.

They?ve built up a lot of love, and several memorable characters over the last 25 or so years, and its hard to encapsulate how many icons the company has produced.?

That didn?t stop 15-year-old ?ShanesDominoez? from giving it a shot. Using 30,000 dominoes, Shane set up various domino images of Nintendo consoles, controllers, cartridges and iconic logos. Classics like Mario and Pokemon give way to Zelda and, for some reason, Sonic (according to the ShanesDominoez YouTube page, he included Sonic because Sega?s blue racer has been on Nintendo for more than decade now). Sonic first appeared on a Nintendo system in 2001 when Sonic Adventure 2: Battle?showed up on the Gamecube?2001 was also the year that Sega stopped making consoles.

Collapsing dominoes is always a fascinating watch, and we particularly enjoyed some of the more innovative structures that Shane put together. Make sure to keep an eye out of the Nintendo 64 symbol and Sonic?s rings.

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Granted it’s not quite, you know, organ donation, but Rovio’s offering up some Facebook magic of its own. The casual game maker has rolled out the Share & Play feature, which lets users embed their latest Angry Birds level onto their friends’ Timelines for some slingshot-happy bragging rights. Sharing goes beyond just Facebook however — you can embed the playable level on other sites as well. Behold: after the break.

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‘The Pirates! Band of Misfits’ and ‘Five-Year Engagement’ also made the top five, with highly anticipated ‘The Avengers’ opening next weekend.
By Ryan J. Downey

Meagan Good in “Think Like a Man”
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It was the calm before the storm at the box office over the weekend. “The Avengers” smashed records as the Marvel/Disney powerhouse flick began to open overseas, but in North America (where it has yet to open), “Think Like a Man” was able to top the box office for a second weekend with a relatively soft $18 million.

“The Avengers” was #1 in all 39 foreign territories where it opened, taking in $178.4 million around the world. The superhero team-up flick that unites Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Black Widow and Hawkeye set box-office records in places like Mexico, Brazil, Taiwan, the Philippines and Hong Kong. “The Avengers” is now #9 on the all-time foreign-openings chart despite the fact that it has yet to open in China, Russia or Japan. It opens this weekend in the U.S.

Domestically, “Think Like a Man” faced competition from four new movies that all underwhelmed with their debuts.

“The Pirates! Band of Misfits” was #2 with $11.4 million. The stop-motion animation movie is the latest from Britain’s Aardman Animation, whose “Arthur Christmas” opened at $12.1 million in November of last year. In positive news for the film, “Pirates!” has already recouped its estimated $50 million budget worldwide. At press time, it also enjoyed a 86 percent “Tomatometer” score on Rotten Tomatoes, which aggregates reviews from film critics. “It makes for an experience that, while geared toward younger, more fidgety audiences, has enough humor to keep Mom and Dad from falling asleep,” The Washington Post reported.

“The Five Year Engagement” was a dud at fifth place with $11.16 million, much lower than director Nick Stoller’s “Get Him to the Greek” ($17.5 million) and his previous collaboration with Jason Segel, “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” ($17.7 million). “Engagement” producer Judd Apatow’s “Bridesmaids” opened with $26.2 million last spring.

Jason Statham’s “Safe” was #6 with $7.7 million, which was lower than the opening weekends for both his “The Mechanic” ($11.4 million) and “Killer Elite” ($9.4 million). Rounding out the weekend’s new wide releases, “The Raven” was #7 with $7.3 million. The movie stars John Cusack as a fictionalized version of Edgar Allan Poe.

“Think Like a Man,” featuring a story based on the self-help book from comedian Steve Harvey, has earned $60.9 million in two weeks against an estimated production budget of just $12 million. Zac Efron’s “The Lucky One” dipped to #3 on the box-office chart with $11.3 million in its second weekend for a two-week gross of $39.9 million. “The Hunger Games” was #4 with $11.3 million. The first entry in the planned trilogy has made $372.5 million domestically to date.

Of the movies in the top seven, only “Pirates!,” “The Hunger Games” and “The Five-Year Engagement” have done well with critics. Reviews for “The Raven,” which was directed by James McTeigue (“V for Vendetta”), have been particularly harsh. “It’s just a bore; quoth the raven, ‘Go see something else,’ ” wrote Associated Press movie writer David Germain.

Which movies are brave enough to do battle with “Marvel’s The Avengers” this weekend? Smaller, limited-release films like “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” (starring Tom Wilkinson, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench and Bill Nighy), horror flick “Mother’s Day” (from the maker of the second, third and fourth “Saw” movies) and Miley Cyrus’ “LOL” will be the only movies attempting to sneak in under the radar alongside what is sure to be one of the year’s biggest movies.

Critics are already heaping praise on “The Avengers,” which follows on the heels of the already well-reviewed precursor Marvel movies “Iron Man” (94 percent Tomatometer), “The Incredible Hulk” (66 percent), “Iron Man 2″ (74 percent), “Thor” (77 percent) and “Captain America: The First Avenger” (79 percent). Christie Lemire of The Associated Press proclaimed, “The dialogue sparkles as brightly as the special effects; these people may be wearing ridiculous costumes but they’re well fleshed-out underneath. And so in every regard, this movie truly fulfills its hype.” Justin Chang of Variety agreed: “Like a superior, state-of-the-art model built from reconstituted parts, [director/co-writer] Joss Whedon’s buoyant, witty and robustly entertaining superhero smash-up is escapism of a sophisticated order.”

Check out everything we’ve got on “The Hunger Games,” “Think Like a Man” and “The Avengers.”

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