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Kate Cox and 55 others

Gaming has a substantial history now, 40 years after Pong first went out into the wide world. Even the Smithsonian is running a detailed exhibit on the art and history of video games, opening later this month. » 3/07/12 1:00pm 3/07/12 1:00pm

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Mapping the Future: Academia and Community

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Maggie Greene and 7 others
I've really been enjoying GameSetWatch's series called 'The Game Anthropologist,' which (among other things) looks at various gaming communities — this week is a look at one of my favorite blogs, Michael Abbott's The Brainy Gamer » 8/10/08 1:30pm 8/10/08 1:30pm. We've looked at Abbott's efforts to create (pretty collectively!) for his , which has…
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Academics vs. 'Gaming' Academics: Let the Snark Begin

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Maggie Greene and 43 others

While academia occasionally manages to maintain the veneer of being 'civilized,' academic battles of words can frequently be just as epic as anything occurring outside the Ivory Tower — even when couched in elegant language and well-reasoned points, you can tell people are out to draw blood. So it (sort of) is with… » 5/10/08 4:30pm 5/10/08 4:30pm