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  Playing with Peripherals

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  Ben Aslinger Bentley University

  September 24, 2007

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  a joystick while playing Pole Position, running on the NES Power Pad, and calming a dog named Venus who gets ... perspectives and research methods to talk about the investments and pleasures of audiences. What can we learn ...
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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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  Asceticism

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  Ken McAllister University of Arizona

  April 17, 2009

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  and precious books opened up to Peter of Celle the peace and concentration necessary to learn from the ...
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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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  technology to run “mission simulators” in modified Apache and Black Hawk helicopters. Before Philadelphia, ...
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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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  Imagining the Self-Controller: ‘The Wild Divine Project’ as an Experiment in Religious Game Interface

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  Vincent Gonzalez UNC - Chapel Hill

  April 15, 2010

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  Imagining the Self-Controller: ‘The Wild Divine Project’ as an Experiment in Religious Game Interface wellness video games spirituality new age branding Curator's Note /*-->*/ The Wild Divine Project has posed a classificatory problem since 2003, ...
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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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  Distract Me Not: iPhone Games Get Creative

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  Zachary McCune University of Cambridge

  August 16, 2011

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  Distract Me Not: iPhone Games Get Creative video games iPhone Indie Game Developers Curator's Note The perception of iPhone games as temporary distractions suggests their disposability. We find them increasing common in waiting rooms, on commutes, an ...
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  Dreams of Being/Killing Lara Croft: Exploring Agency and Gender in Tomb Raider

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  Agnes Trzak and Alex Annetts Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge

  March 11, 2013

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  Dreams of Being/Killing Lara Croft: Exploring Agency and Gender in Tomb Raider Women's Bodies video games Tomb Raider and Gender in Games Lara Croft feminism agency affect Curator's Note While designing the character of Lara Croft, Toby Gard env ...
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  Guarantee Me You’ll Bring This Corporation Down: Narrative Closure and Resident Evil’s Anti-Corporate Politics

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  Sean Cashbaugh Department of American Studies, University of Texas at Austin

  May 22, 2013

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  Guarantee Me You’ll Bring This Corporation Down: Narrative Closure and Resident Evil’s Anti-Corporate Politics video games resident evil at the movies narrative capitalism Curator's Note The Resident Evil franchise revolves around the Umbrella Corpor ...

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