. >> glor: the experience they gain here at the replay lab on the campus of drexel university could helpt a job once they graduate. >> we created the rest of this all by ourselves, all the models, all the characters, all the effects you see in here, we did. >> glor: using tools like a motion-capture studio and 3-d modeling, andrew and his classmates are learning the fine art of video game development, a career and a business that is exploding. will be in 2009, americans bought more than $20 billion worth of video game systems and software, surpassing even the mighty movie industry at $18.7 billion in box office and dvd sales. >> the entertainment segment of the video game industry is huge. a modern title can make a couple of hundred million dollars in one weekend. >> reporter: tom bissell, author of the new book, "extra live "calls video games the preeminent art form of our time. >> i think we're really on the verge of, like, a wider acceptance, that it's not just nerds, or not just geeks that play these things. some very intelligent, thoughtful, smart people are designing them and playi

. >> drexel university center for nonviolence and social justice chair, dr. john rich present several portraits of young black men trying to avoid violence in the inner cities. he also discusses the challenges posed by socioeconomic factors. the enoch grad library in baltimore host this hour-long event. the program contains language some viewers might find objectionable. >> i am grateful to be, grateful for this limitation and grateful for the opportunity to have a conversation with you this evening, and to hear your thoughts. i am grateful to see young men and women here, who can reflect upon how many of these issues, the issues that the young people in the book talk about affect their own lives. i would also like to thanks piece band for-- c-span for being here and for my colleague, christina from johns hopkins press who has been wonderful. now, i come to this really from the perspective of a doctor, and i appreciate your reading those words. that is where i ended up, in understanding that we couldn't necessarily discard, we couldn't discard these young peo

john rich chairs the health management department at drexel university school of public health. he is also the universe is director of the center for nonviolence and social justice. dr. rich is a former medical director of the boston public health commission. for more information visit public health dr. axel.edu. >> well, there is a new worldwide community gathering to read a book and it's called "one book, one twitter" and the organizer is jeff howe. explain to us what "one book, one twitter" is. >> well, in a sense it is a global book club but the inspiration was really not book clubs. which twitter has a few of and our wonderful. as the big reads that we've seen over the last 10 years, the first one being nancy pearl's what if everyone in seattle read the same book, where in 1998 all of seattle read the sweet hereafter. the one that actually inspired me as i was reading about "one book, one chicago" the first and not go -- to kill a mockingbird and connections that true and i was reading about that in the course, i'm a fellow at harvard is taking a course with robert putnam.