{"386291":{"#nid":"386291","#data":{"type":"news","title":"LMC to Host Mia Consalvo for Ivan Allen College Day on April 7","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor and Canada Research Chair in Game Studies and Design at Concordia University, Consalvo is the co-editor of \u003Cem\u003ESports Videogames\u003C\/em\u003E and author of \u003Cem\u003ECheating: Gaining Advantage in Videogames\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EConsalvo runs the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.mlabgamestudies.com\/\u0022\u003EmLab\u003C\/a\u003E, which is dedicated to developing innovative methods for studying games and game players. President of the Digital Games Research Association, she has held positions at MIT, Ohio University, Chubu University in Japan, and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHer talk will address material from her most recently completed book \u003Cem\u003EPlayers and Their Pets\u003C\/em\u003E, which she wrote with Jason Begy. The two argue that \u003Cem\u003EFaunasphere\u003C\/em\u003E, a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG), which existed from 2009 to 2011, is more important than more commercially successful games such as \u003Cem\u003EWorld of Warcraft\u003C\/em\u003E that have all too often shaped game studies discourse.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Her presentation will present research soon to be published in her co-authored book, Players and Their Pets."}],"uid":"27725","created_gmt":"2015-03-10 10:06:07","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:02:55","author":"Carol Senf","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-03-10T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-03-10T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"386271":{"id":"386271","type":"image","title":"Mia Consalvo","body":null,"created":"1449246275","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:24:35","changed":"1475894398","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:58","alt":"Mia Consalvo","file":{"fid":"75422","name":"hgimage.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hgimage.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hgimage.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":6204,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/hgimage.jpg?itok=xB12sEp6"}}},"media_ids":["386271"],"groups":[{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"2450","name":"computer games"},{"id":"120951","name":"MMOGs"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}