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Thesis Tweetstream

By Garrison | Published: January 20, 2010
In addi­tion to my work on games, play, and vir­tual worlds at The Pro­gram in Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, Cul­ture, and Tech­nol­ogy, I am for­tu­nate enough to coor­di­nate the under­grad­u­ate senior sem­i­nar in Amer­i­can Stud­ies at George­town. It’s a fan­tas­tic job. One of the goals of my work with these stu­dents is to find novel ways [...]
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Forthcoming in Journal of Virtual Worlds Research

By Garrison | Published: August 23, 2009
Dr. D. Linda Gar­cia and I are excited about a paper we recently sub­mit­ted to the Jour­nal of Vir­tual Worlds Research, enti­tled “Syn­thetic Excel­lence: Stan­dards, Play, and Unin­tended Out­comes.” As the first co-authored paper I’ve ever par­tic­i­pated in, it was a chal­leng­ing paper to write. The paper’s inter­dis­ci­pli­nary approach made for a [...]
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CCTP-628: Interactivity, Immersion, and Play

By Garrison | Published: March 26, 2009
Here’s a course descrip­tion for the new grad­u­ate course I’ll offer next fall at George­town. Frankly, the course is a work–in–progress, and so the semes­ter is still a bit blurry. Still, I’m excited about the early drafts of a syl­labus, which will draw on Samuel Tay­lor Coleridge, robotic vac­u­ums, gospel choirs, Aris­to­tle, hor­ror [...]
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The Metaverse (Some Assembly Required)

By Garrison | Published: March 9, 2009
D. Linda Gar­cia and I, together with Hanan Gazit at H.I.T., will serve as guest edi­tors for a forth­com­ing spe­cial issue of the Jour­nal of Vir­tual Worlds Research. In addi­tion to reg­u­lar papers, the spe­cial issue will fea­ture some of the papers pre­sented at the SLACTIONS con­fer­ence in late September. The meta­verse is emerg­ing, through [...]
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Unintended Nostalgia Delays Revolution

By Garrison | Published: January 6, 2009
Win­ston Churchill once observed that first, we make our build­ings, and then they make us. By which he meant, quite sen­si­bly, that the spaces in which we live and work con­di­tion and deter­mine our behavior. With Mario Car­Barn, our desire was to reap­pro­pri­ate the space, if ten­ta­tively, on behalf of the ludic. The Sit­u­a­tion­ists were famous [...]
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