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  Re: Would You Kindly?: Bioshock and Posthuman Choice

  binary or network

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  Timothy Welsh Loyola University New Orleans

  Sunday, March 13, 2011 — 8:02 am

  oppositional but protocological. The player does not win by excercising agency against the bad guy and never ...
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  Re: Would You Kindly?: Bioshock and Posthuman Choice

  Come to Daddy

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  Mario Rodriguez UPenn

  Friday, March 11, 2011 — 2:23 am

  the cybernetic (cyborg?) imperative to play/finish/win?   What would Haraway think of this ...
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  Would You Kindly?: Bioshock and Posthuman Choice

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  Timothy Welsh Loyola University New Orleans

  March 10, 2011

  4 comments

  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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  Re: FarmVille: The Garden in the Machine

  I'm on your farm, stealing your vegetables

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  Alenda Chang University of California, Berkeley

  Thursday, December 9, 2010 — 10:55 pm

  allowing neighbors to sneak onto your farm and take your hard-earned vegetables. ...
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  Affirmative Activision

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  Nina Huntemann Suffolk University

  December 09, 2010

  1 comment

  units. By the end of launch day, the game sold 5.6 million copies, earning $360 million. Clearly, flak ...
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  Re: FarmVille: The Garden in the Machine

  Re: Open Source

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  Ted Friedman Georgia State University

  Thursday, December 9, 2010 — 12:07 am

  the economic ideas presented in, say, Hollywood movies (in which the little guy usually wins) are very ...
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  FarmVille: The Garden in the Machine

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  Ted Friedman Georgia State University

  December 08, 2010

  7 comments

  FarmVille: The Garden in the Machine simulation postmodernism gaming farmville Facebook Curator's Note 57.6 million Facebook users play FarmVille. Granted, not all of them are people.  Two are my cats, Noisy and Pilot Squeaky. In FarmVille, it helps ...
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  Re: The Flourish

  The rhetoric of fairness

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  Ken McAllister University of Arizona

  Monday, December 6, 2010 — 6:13 pm

  literally earn their living and are actively denied access to the marketplace except as embodied means of ...
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  The Flourish

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  Simon Ferrari Georgia Institute of Technology

  December 06, 2010

  4 comments

  The Flourish street fighter procedural rhetoric e-sports Curator's Note Debates rage about the social and political functions of videogames. Videogames allow us to enter the bodies and minds of virtual others, explore worlds that exist only in the im ...
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  Framing Soccer for the Network Era: ABC and the Challenge to Nationally Broadcast the North American Soccer League, 1979-1981

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  Eric Dewberry Georgia State University

  November 12, 2010

  1 comment

  realized, as soccer earned a paltry 2.6 average ratings share, which paled in comparison to Monday Night ...

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