Emerging Media Thoughts

Tuesday we will begin by discussing the Moulthrop piece from First Person (”From Work to Play”). If you have not already read it for last Thursday’s class do so, and come prepared to explain why, according to Moulthrop, there is such a generational conflict/angst about video games.
We will also begin our discussion of Grand Theft [...]

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Thursday we will continue our discussion of the relationship between storytelling and digital games by adding two additional perspectives to this question. Read “Narrative, Interactivity, Play and Games” by Eric Zimmerman and “From Work to Play” by Stuart Moulthrop. Both are available in First Person. Also you should begin to think about your final project, [...]

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After spring break we will turn to discussing games and narrative. For Tues. March 24th read “Game Design as Narrative Architecture” by Henry Jenkins & “Towards Computer Game Studies” by Markku Eselinen. Both are in First Person. (See you after the break.)

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Thursday we will continue our discussion of Inanimate Alice. So, if you half already finished all four sections, no worries just come to class, if not read/veiw all four sections by Thursday’s class.

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Tuesday we will finish up with the groups discussing/presenting on the stories from We Tell Stories and begin looking at Inanimate Alice. You need to read/view Episodes 1-4, this will take roughly an hour to do (each episode is progressively longer), so make sure you plan enough time for every episode.
Second, each group should edit [...]

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We will be talking about We Tell Stories and 217 Babel Street on Thursday. You do not need to read all of the stories, instead you need to read only the one you were assigned in class. Spend time reading, and rereading whichever work you were assigned, as you along with the 2-3 others who [...]

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