All Readings

In advance, I would like to link to

all reading directives throughout the 

course. There are three total. All are

well sized, interesting, and most of

all very informative to what we're

doing. Read at own convenience!

1. Grand Theft Desire

Stephen Duncombe

chapter from "Dream : Reimagining

Progressive Politics in the 

Age of Fantasy" (2007)

DUE : Week 4, Feb 11

LINK : http://www.brooklynrail.org/2007/02/express/gta-play-game 

ONLINE
ESTIMATE : 25 Minutes

2. (A Double Take)

"Art", Ian Bogost, chapter from

"How to Do Things with Videogames" (2011)

&

"Video games can never be art", Roger Ebert

online article posted on author's blog (2010)

DUE : Week 7, Mar 4

LINKS : 

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132302/persuasive_games_the_.php

http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/video-games-can-never-be-art 

ONLINE 
ESTIMATE :  15 Minutes and 15 Minutes

3. The Collective Intelligence 

of Internet Fans, Henry Jenkins

from "Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers" (2006)

DUE : Week 10, April 1 (no joke)

LINK : https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B288S_z9geMuTmxwM2E5Z18zWUU/edit?usp=sharing

DOWNLOADABLE PDF
ESTIMATE : 35 Minutes

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