Lisette Gonzalez is a PhD student at the University of Illinois at Chicago working in the areas of cyberculture, film, and contemporary American fiction. Lisette Gonzalez is a PhD student at the University of Illinois at Chicago working in the areas of cyberculture, film, and contemporary American […]
Martin E. Rosenberg is an assistant professor of critical theory in the Department of English at Eastern Kentucky University. Martin E. Rosenberg is an assistant professor of critical theory in the Department of English at Eastern Kentucky […]
[…]as a researcher at the Center for Computer Game Research in Denmark. He is Editor of the Game Studies journal, as well as writing Ludology.org and co-editing WaterCoolerGames.org. Frasca is also a game developer who co-founded Powerful Robot Games, a videogame production studio responsible for the internationally acclaimed Newsgaming.com project. Gonzalo Frasca works as a researcher at the Center for Computer Game Research in Denmark. He is Editor of the Game Studies journal, as well as writing Ludology.org and co-editing WaterCoolerGames.org. Frasca is also a game developer who co-founded Powerful Robot Games, a videogame production studio responsible for the internationally […]
[…]cognition, and digital media, as well as management, computer science engineering, performance studies, genetics, endocrinology, and physiology. In addition, she has used neurocognitive methods for teaching writing to faculty and graduate students in virtually every discipline and profession. Douglas is the author of “I Have Said Nothing,” a short story that appears in Post Modern American Fiction: A Norton Anthology, The End of Books or Books without End? Reading Interactive Narratives (University of Michigan Press), and Your Reader’s Brain: How Neuroscience Can Make You a Better Writer (Cambridge University Press). She provided guidance as an expert in the amicus curiae […]
[…]a social interaction game; and Excalibur, an Arthurian game. He also ran the Games Research Group for Alan Kay. Following the collapse of Atari in 1984, Crawford took up the Macintosh. After teaching physics for several years, Chris Crawford joined Atari as a game designer in 1979. There he created a number of games: Energy Czar, an educational simulation about the energy crisis; Scram, a nuclear power plant simulation; Eastern Front (1941), a wargame; Gossip, a social interaction game; and Excalibur, an Arthurian game. He also ran the Games Research Group for Alan Kay. Following the collapse of Atari in […]
Eric Zimmerman is a game designer who has been working in the game industry for more than twelve years. He is the co-founder, with Peter Lee, of gameLab, a game development company based in New York City that creates experimental games on and off the computer, including BLiX, Arcadia, and Diner Dash. Eric is also the co-creator with Word.com of SiSSYFiGHT 2000. He has taught courses at MIT, New York University, and Parsons School of Design. Eric Zimmerman is a game designer who has been working in the game industry for more than twelve years. He is the co-founder, with […]
Jon McKenzie is Assistant Professor of English and Co-coordinator of Modern Studies at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Jon McKenzie is Assistant Professor of English and Co-coordinator of Modern Studies at University of Wisconsin […]
Henry Jenkins was the founder and co-director of the MIT Program in Comparative Media Studies and now serves as the Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts, and Education at the University of Southern California. He has published more than fifteen books on various aspects of new media, popular culture, and public life, starting with Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture in 1992. His most recent books have included Reading in a Participatory Culture: Remixing Moby-Dick in the Literature Classroom; Spreadable Media: Creating Meaning and Value in a Networked Culture; and the forthcoming By Any Media Necessary: Mapping Youth […]
[…]Theory & Critique, Screen, Journal of Popular Film and Television, Popular Culture Review, Studies in Popular Culture, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Currents in Electronic Literacy, Science Fiction Studies, and in the anthology Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization (Pluto Press, 2004). He is also co-editor of the anthology Screening Disability: Essays on Cinema and Disability (University Press of America, […]
[…]to Hitchcock (Cambridge, 1994) and Ideology and Inscription: ‘Cultural Studies’ after Benjamin, de Man, and Bakhtin (Cambridge, 1998). [outdated] THOMAS COHEN currently chairs the English Department at the State University of New York, Albany. His books include Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock (Cambridge, 1994) and Ideology and Inscription: ‘Cultural Studies’ after Benjamin, de Man, and Bakhtin (Cambridge, […]