the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, game studies researchers presented their list of the top 10 most unexpected findings for video game designers over the past year. This marks the fourth year that researchers Ian Bogost, associate professor at Georgia Tech; Jane McGonigal, director of games research and development at the Institute for...
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Game Studies Download 2009: Top 10 Big Ideas In Gaming
The Book on Atari
Racing the Beam, The Atari Video Computer System, a book by Georgia Tech Associate Professor Ian Bogost, takes a look at the development of the first popular video game platform through the lens of six game cartridges to show how the developers of those games, for better or worse, laid the ground work for...
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Rubbernecking: Why We Love to Witness Disaster
Log onto YouTube and you can watch dozens of videos of planes crashing into the towers on 9/11 and victims leaping to their deaths. Browse Amazon for one of the 87 DVDs about Hurricane Katrina. Or tune into the Discovery Channelâ’s new show, â’Destroyed in Seconds.â’ â’Images of disaster haunt the American national consciousness...
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Bloggers to the Rescue
Considering all the layoffs, downsizes and cutbacks reported in the news these days, it’s not surprising to learn that the news itself is being cut back. According to Joe Samuel Starnes, visiting assistant professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University, “You don’t have to look far to see struggling businesses, but newspapers have been...
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Women Get to the Point :: Too Bad it is When Texting
In an article in the latest edition of the quarterly journal Written Communication, IU researchers Susan Herring and Asta Zelenkauskaite show that while men historically talk more in public settings, when the exchanges occur via text messaging in a public venue — in this case, Italy’s real-time interactive music television channel Allmusic — it is...
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