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 Send to email | Mapping the Future: Academia and Community [Academia] in Academia Culture game studies Michael abbott |  By Maggie Greene
el 10-Aug-2008 |  I've really been enjoying GameSetWatch's series called 'The Game Anthropologist,' which (among other things) looks at various gaming communities — this week is a look at one of my favorite blogs, Michael Abbott's The Brainy Gamer. We've looked at Abbott's efforts to create (pretty collectively!) a syllabus for his history of RPGs course, which has inspired a lot of discussion both on his blog and here at Kotaku. The interview goes quite a bit beyond the borders of his blog, and I was particularly interested in his thoughts on games and academia, especially for those of us who cannot really be classed as 'game studies' people:
We also spoke on the difficulties of it being a stable field .... He was comfortable with the term game criticism, but had some reservations. Like the rest of us, he is nervous. "Narrative games are barely past the infant stage, and critical commentary and analysis about them are even less developed," he warned. "Everyone is still trying to figure out who everyone else is, and in this process communities form themselves. We are on the ground floor of this effort to try to figure out how to talk intelligently about video games - how to analyze them and develop a critical language to discuss them. We're not like other disciplines (I'm not even sure I would call us a discipline yet), because we're all figuring this out together; we don't even have the terms yet." He told me, "Part of our trepidation about what to call it is that there is already a field called game studies, and some of us aren't comfortable with where that's going or don't feel we quite fit in there ...."
A lot of us are treading (or going to tread) in a relative no man's land — outside our 'home' disciplines, but not at home in game studies. In any case, it's an interesting interview — and the whole series is definitely worth a look. There's some wonderfully thoughtful musings and discussion about gaming, the gaming community, and beyond. Game Community Interviews, Part 4 - The Brainy Gamer's Michael Abbott [GameSetWatch]
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| Mapping the Future: Academia and Community [Academia] | | I've really been enjoying GameSetWatch's series called 'The Game Anthropologist,' which (among other things) looks at various gaming communities — this week is a look at one of my favorite blogs, Michael Abbott's The Brainy Gamer. We've looked at Abbott's efforts to create (pretty collect [..] Read complete article | | Published 10-Aug-2008 by Maggie Greene in Academia Culture game studies Michael abbott
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| Fan-Industry Interactions: the Case of Fallout [Academia] | | After a rather grueling year, I am taking a self-enforced vacation from academia for a few days to recharge. But if you're not, there's a pretty interesting PDF of an MA thesis floating around — the subject is fan-producer interaction in relation to games, specifically Fallout. I [..] Read complete article | | Published 15-Jun-2008 by Maggie Greene in Academia Bethesda Culture Fallout Fallout 3 Fan Culture Game Development
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| New Media, Stories, and Games: the Essays [Academia] | | I'm still on a semi-enforced vacation from academia, but I couldn't resist reading some of the essays found on electronic book review. The essays are a selection from two MIT Press books, First Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game and Second Person: Role-Playing a [..] Read complete article | | Published 21-Jun-2008 by Maggie Greene in Academia Books Culture Mit Mit press
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I’ve previously talked about how Mind Mapping can be used to generate hundreds of ideas for blog posts. It can be used both to come up with fresh [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 07-Aug-2008 by Darren Rowse in Featured PostsWriting Content
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| How to Build Community on Your Blog | | @SmallFishMedia asks - “What can you do to make your blog more of a community?”
There are many things that you can do to build a sense of community on a blog. Here’s a short list of ideas that come to mind:
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| 6 Lessons a Barista Taught Me About Building Community on a Blog | | This week my guest post at ScribeFire is all about building community and conversation into your blog.
It struck me today that the barista in my local cafe is not only one of the best coffee makers that I know - but is also really great at building community (albeit temporary community) in the cafe that [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 23-Jun-2008 by Darren Rowse in Miscellaneous Blog Tips
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| Taking your Blog to a Community | | Today Community Strategist Connie Bensen shares some tips on taking your blog to a community.
Every blogger wants more readers. I’ve always appreciated how Problogger regularly features ideas for improving your blog & writing techniques. As people happen upon your blog they may decide to join your community of readers. But what if you could take [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 05-Jul-2008 by Darren Rowse in Miscellaneous Blog Tips
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| Former XNA Community Manager Airs Quality Concerns [Microsoft] | | Microsoft's recent announcement that it would let community developers earn money for games they make with the company's XNA toolset came as good news to some, but former XNA community manager David Weller is concerned about the lack of quality standards. On his blog, Weller wrote: [..] Read complete article | | Published 25-Jul-2008 by Leigh Alexander in Microsoft community games Xbla xna
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The Center for an Urban Future, a Manhattan-based think tank, has a report on New York's growing games industry. GameDaily reports that Take-Two and Atari, along with 30 game development companies and some 5 [..] Read complete article | | Published 13-May-2008 by Alexander Sliwinski in developmentgame-developmentnew-york
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