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Yep, we’re social

Yep, we’re social

Over the last two years we have grown our fb.com/ewueagles fan page from fifteen hundred fans to (as of this post) 12,381. Are you a EWUEagles friend?  Can also follow us on twitter, view us on YouTube or iTunes U, photos on flickr.

Social Media and College Admissions

Social Media and College Admissions

There are some interesting stats here. For example, 70% of colleges say the Facebook profiles of applicants are a medium or high priority in the admissions process. Graphic courtesy of Schools.com
Courtesy of: Schools.com

Affect and the machine gaze

Affect and the machine gaze

In class yesterday, one of our grad students sparked a discussion of affect as it relates to video games.  One point that we didn’t get to explore is that from a marketing perspective, the video game industry is deeply interested in affect (as is any business that involves selling something in just unimaginable quantities). For […]

Game Studies class starting today

Game Studies class starting today

I’m happy to write that the Game Studies class that I’m co-teaching (with my excellent and inestimable colleagues Carol Stabile and Annie Zeidman-Karpinski) is meeting for the first time today. This class is a bit of an experiment. It is (to my knowledge) the first Game Studies class to be taught at the University of […]

Call Me A Duck (On The Rocks)

Call Me A Duck (On The Rocks)

Take a look at the UO’s new admissions recruitment video, featuring a capella superstars, On The Rocks: UO locations seen in the video include Walton Complex (Housing), Lillis Business Complex, Knight Library, Johnson Hall, Hayward Field, Gerlinger Hall, Jordan Schnitzer Museum … Continue reading

On Mondloch’s Screens

On Mondloch’s Screens

I just finished reading UO colleague Kate Mondloch’s excellent new book, Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2010, from the thoroughly excellent Electronic Mediations series); and while I’m not ready to thoroughly review it, I do want to take a moment to log a few brief thoughts. It is clear within the […]

Communicative Manipulation

Communicative Manipulation

I was thumbing through Goffman’s The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life1 the other day, thinking about games as dialogic actors in a scheme of mediated interpersonal communication; thinking about about Super Meat Boy and the critical response to it (the grounded, the hyperbolic, the in-between); thinking about Abbot’s upcoming class; thinking about my own […]