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  Playing with Peripherals

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  Ben Aslinger Bentley University

  September 24, 2007

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  Playing with Peripherals affect audiences Dance Dance Revolution embodiment Guitar Hero interfaces John Guare Karaoke Revolution Lev Manovich memory nostalgia peripherals play Six Degrees of Separation video games Curator's Note “It was an experience ...
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  Infinite Auditions: Dance as Data Set and Habit

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  Anna Beatrice Scott University of California -- Riverside

  December 07, 2007

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  Infinite Auditions: Dance as Data Set and Habit appropriation performance race competition dance video games the body MMOG Curator's Note Bodiless bodies are stacked inside the rhythm and moves; fleshless dancers skim keys eliding their epidermal rea ...
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  Feeling Games

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  Tara McPherson University of Southern California

  February 13, 2009

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  emotions as their very terrain, mining affect as gameplay. At least until Ruben & Lullaby.   A new ...
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  Enlisting Players from Console to Mall

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  Nina Huntemann Suffolk University

  April 28, 2009

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  Army), at least as envisioned by the media producer (the Army), seeks to transform the virtual soldier ...
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  Springfield Sprawl: The Ad of the Game of the Movie of the Show

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  Jonathan Gray University of Wisconsin - Madison

  April 29, 2009

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  Springfield Sprawl: The Ad of the Game of the Movie of the Show video games trailer The Simpsons paratexts paratext overflow commercial intertexts Curator's Note This batch of trailers all very amusingly advertised the 2007 videogame, The Simpsons Ga ...
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  Cuddly Kittens and Chainsaw Bayonets: Where Do Kids Fit into Today’s Video Game Landscape?

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  Steven Boyer University of Glasgow

  August 31, 2010

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  Cuddly Kittens and Chainsaw Bayonets: Where Do Kids Fit into Today’s Video Game Landscape? video games press conferences demographics Curator's Note At this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), Microsoft opened their press event by showing off ...
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  Would You Kindly?: Bioshock and Posthuman Choice

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  Timothy Welsh Loyola University New Orleans

  March 10, 2011

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  Would You Kindly?: Bioshock and Posthuman Choice video games posthuman objectivism choice bioshock Curator's Note by Edmond Chang and Timothy Welsh Department of English, University of Washington The video game Bioshock (Irrational Games, 2007) takes ...
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  Gaming on the Spectrum: Autism and Xbox Live

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  Steven Boyer University of Glasgow

  April 04, 2011

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  Gaming on the Spectrum: Autism and Xbox Live video games Media Literacy autism Curator's Note  In January, a  local news story  about an eleven-year-old autistic boy's punishment on the  Xbox Live  gaming service caused an internet uproar. The i ...
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  Help Wanted, No Experience Necessary

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  Nina Huntemann Suffolk University

  May 03, 2011

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  Help Wanted, No Experience Necessary video games playtesting labor Curator's Note Playtesters play videogames that are unstable, unbalanced and riddled with broken code. Their labor is also unstable in that playtesters are frequently short-term contr ...
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  Atari Commercials and the Boy Culture of Video Games

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  Michael Z. Newman University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

  June 26, 2012

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  Atari Commercials and the Boy Culture of Video Games video games gaming history commercial atari Curator's Note Video games and masculinity have been tightly wound together for as long as television displays and computer chips have been used for play ...

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