Live broadband streaming of the 2008 Beijing Olympics accounted for 2,200 of the
estimated 3,600 total hours shown by the American NBC-Universal networks. At the 2012 …

This book argues that games offer a means of coming to terms with a world that is being
transformed by digital technologies. As blends of software and fiction, videogames are …

Catan—they are a remarkably understudied phenomenon within media studies. A search of
online academic databases for “board game” finds few articles within media studies; a …

This article focuses on the design and preliminary experimentation of a tabletop game called
Kitchen Table, created to encourage more empathy towards people with severe …

In our actions in relation to computer games, we are rarely forced to reflect on the question of
how we conceptualize the medial objects upon and with which we are acting. Do we …

My dissertation is a history of video arcade games. It examines the actions and interactions
of “producers,”“mediators,” and “users” in constituting the development, economics, and …

This paper is devoted in its entirety to the exploration of a new compositional mode called
'game scoring.'As with film scoring, game scoring supports, complements and elucidates the …

Wollte man den Vorschlag auf einen Punkt bringen, mit dem ich die in diesem Band
aufgeworfene Frage nach dem Verbleib der (großen) Erzählungen beantworten möchte, so …

This thesis performs a critical narrative analysis of the pervasive" damsel in distress"
narrative within two prominent video game franchises, The Legend of Zelda series and the …

In this review of Ruggill and McAllister's Gaming Matters: Art, Science, Magic, and the
Computer Game Medium, I seek to locate their argument within the larger framework of the …