I'm an ex-"tech" worker and now a scholar, with have a deep passion for linguistics (BS in Communication Sciences and Disorders) and games (video and tabletop). I'm currently pursuing an MA in the humanities (graduating April), which I use to study games (video and tabletop), themed and immersive experiences (almost exclusively theme parks), film/TV (scifi, superhero, action, animation), and politics in/of media. I then start my PhD this autumn, DMs open!
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Doing Ethnography Today explores the methodologies and theories behind contemporary, collaborative ethnography and provides an …
Last two weeks of the semester and my master's degree. Most of my reading is piecemeal from a variety of sources right now (see: the reading activity log in my bio).
Frederic Jameson and Film Theory is the first collection of its kind, it assesses and …
Got this for free from the publisher's table at a conference! Excited to check it out.
Super important book, not just for its time but into today. My only real complaint is it feels like it restates its points over and over again, either in/across sections, chapters, or "schemas." The language is otherwise very accessible and the text full of great examples.
Notably, this is the text that popularized the concept of the "magic circle" in game studies. Having fully read it now, I can see that it was grossly taken out of context. The authors themselves anticipated and problematized it long before others took to abuse of the term, debate over it, and restructuring it back to what it already was.
An impassioned look at games and game design that offers the most ambitious framework for understanding them to date.
As …
An impassioned look at games and game design that offers the most ambitious framework for understanding them to date.
As …
Sandra Laugier has long been a key liaison between American and European philosophical thought, responsible …
Definitely later. I'm bogged down in conference preparations.
@suzyxwvu septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/5016 Curious your feelings on this.
Introduces key terms, concepts, debates, and histories for Disability Studies
Keywords for Disability Studies aims …
Another time.
When Kate L. Turabian first put her famous guidelines to paper, she could hardly have …
Another time.
Doing Ethnography Today explores the methodologies and theories behind contemporary, collaborative ethnography and provides an …
For research assistantship.
An impassioned look at games and game design that offers the most ambitious framework for understanding them to date.
As …
I don't want to underestimate the goodness of this book's aims: it's worth a read. It is, however, repetitive and circular as all sin in its examples. There's also an extreme devotion to art history overlaid on a broad interpretation of play (as opposed to the narrower categories of game or game design the title may imply), to the extent you don't really get to any sense of what use critical play is in games until the last chapter.
That doesn't change how my mind did wander to the utility of artistic thought in game design and related projects. It just ended up being a bit more distracting than what I went in thinking about, which is a critical game design such as that being explored in an issue of Design Issues from last year.
An examination of subversive games—games designed for political, aesthetic, and social critique.
For many players, games are entertainment, diversion, relaxation, …
An examination of subversive games—games designed for political, aesthetic, and social critique.
For many players, games are entertainment, diversion, relaxation, …
What significance does the physical, material body still have in a world of virtual reality …
Another time.
