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    The Geek’s Chihuahua: Living with Apple

    Ian Bogost

    The evolution and meaning of our love affair with Apple and its devices

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    How to Talk about Videogames

    Ian Bogost

    Leading critic Ian Bogost posits that game critique is both serious cultural currency and selfparody. Noting that the term games criticism once struck him as preposterous, Bogost observes that the…

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    How to Do Things with Videogames

    Ian Bogost

    A fresh look at computer games as a mature mass medium with unlimited potential for cultural transformation

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    Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames

    Ian Bogost

    An exploration of the way videogames mount arguments and make expressive statements about the world that analyzes their unique persuasive power in terms of their computational properties.

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    Alien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing

    Ian Bogost

    A bold new metaphysics that explores how all things-from atoms to green chiles, cotton to computers-interact with, perceive, and experience one another

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    Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games

    Ian Bogost

    How filling life with play-whether soccer or lawn mowing, counting sheep or tossing Angry Birds-forges a new path for creativity and joy in our impatient age

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    Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism

    Ian Bogost

    Suggests that any medium - from videogames to poetry, literature, cinema, or art - can be read as a configurative system of discrete, interlocking units of meaning. This title illustrates…

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    Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System

    Nick Montfort (Associate Professor of Digital Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology),Ian Bogost (Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology)

    A study of the relationship between platform and creative expression in the Atari VCS.

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    The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning

    Looks at games as systems in which young users participate, as gamers, producers, and learners. This volume also looks at the ways in which youth are empowered through their participation…

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    10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10

    Nick Montfort (Associate Professor of Digital Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology),Patsy Baudoin (Research Affiliate, MIT Libraries),John Bell (Adjunct Lecturer, University of Maine),Ian Bogost (Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology),Jeremy Douglass (postdoctoral researcher, University of California, Santa Barbara)

    A single line of code offers a way to understand the cultural context of computing.

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