Category Archives: Scholarship

GMU “Overwhelmed” by Interest in Game Design BFA

By Garrison | Published: April 30, 2010
Via Game­Pol­i­tics, news that the new-ish Game Design BFA offered at GMU has met with“over­whelm­ing” stu­dent response. A story in the Fair­fax Times reports that the school has already enrolled around 200 stu­dents into the pro­gram, best­ing an inter­nal goal of hav­ing 110 stu­dents in the pro­gram by 2012. As Scott M. Mar­tin, Assis­tant Dean [...]
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CFP: Digital Game Play as Sociotechnical Practice | HASTAC

By Garrison | Published: February 13, 2010
HASTAC (The Human­i­ties, Arts, Sci­ence, and Tech­nol­ogy Advanced Col­lab­o­ra­tory) is def­i­nitely worth get­ting to know: I’ve been to two of their con­fer­ences, and they are ter­rific. Today, their blog calls atten­tion to a new Call For Papers (Trento, Italy, Sept 2010) that is inter­est­ing chiefly for its desire to blend game stud­ies with STS: CFP: Dig­i­tal [...]
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Kirschenbaum’s Simulations Course at UMD

By Garrison | Published: January 25, 2010
Matthew Kirschen­baum, over at UMD, is an Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Eng­lish and the Asso­ciate Direc­tor of MITH, the Mary­land Insti­tute for Tech­nol­ogy in the Human­i­ties. His blog is chock full of inter­est­ing stuff, and his tweets are prolific. A year ago, he pub­lished a good lit­tle arti­cle in the Chron­i­cle on why human­i­ties stu­dents must [...]
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A Neophyte Takes on the Command-Line Interface

By Garrison | Published: January 19, 2010
This has been cov­ered in a few places, includ­ing Hyper­com­pen­dia and East­gate’s use­ful HTLit.com, but it’s worth men­tion­ing again. Dig­i­tal lit­er­acy scholar Den­nis Jerz set his eleven-year-old child in front of Colosal Cave Adven­ture and — using a piece of soft­ware like Screen­flow — cap­tured both the unfold­ing of the game on-screen and the young gamer’s [...]
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