{"582277":{"#nid":"582277","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Death of the Gamer: Why the Term \u2018Gamer\u2019 Matters","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp style=\u0022margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(220, 220, 220);\u0022\u003EIan Bogost, professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication,\u0026nbsp;was quoted in \u0026ldquo;Death of the Gamer: Why the Term\u0026nbsp;\u0026lsquo;Gamer\u0026rsquo; Matters\u0026rdquo;\u0026nbsp;by \u003Cb\u003EForbes\u003C\/b\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp style=\u0022margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(220, 220, 220);\u0022\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote style=\u0022margin: 0px 12px 12px; padding: 12px 18px; background: rgb(246, 246, 246); border-width: 1px; border-color: rgb(215, 215, 215); border-image: initial; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 23px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal;\u0022\u003E\r\n\u003Cp style=\u0022box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.4em; font-family: Georgia, \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, Times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-margin-before: 0px; -webkit-margin-after: 0px; -webkit-padding-start: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\u0022\u003EIan Bogost, in the conclusion to his book\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/How-Things-Videogames-Electronic-Mediations\/dp\/081667647X\/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8\u0022 style=\u0022box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 56, 145);\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cem style=\u0022box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\u0022\u003EHow to do Things with Videogames\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, remarks that \u0026ldquo;we must face a humbling and perhaps even disturbing conclusion about the media forms we love: they\u0026rsquo;re just not that special\u0026rdquo; (pg. 148). It seems a strange conclusion for someone whose career is largely built on videogame studies. Why bother with all that research for a medium you don\u0026rsquo;t think is all that special? And yet, Bogost makes a crucial point.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp style=\u0022box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.4em; font-family: Georgia, \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, Times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-margin-before: 0px; -webkit-margin-after: 0px; -webkit-padding-start: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp style=\u0022box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.4em; font-family: Georgia, \u0026quot;Times New Roman\u0026quot;, Times, serif; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-margin-before: 0px; -webkit-margin-after: 0px; -webkit-padding-start: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\u0022\u003EIt is part of a process he calls\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\u0022box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\u0022\u003Edemystification\u003C\/em\u003E. All mediums begin in the form of some innovative, strange, captivating technology.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\u0022box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\u0022\u003EYou can use a machine to print endless copies of exactly the same text?! You can use a device to instantly paint a highly-realistic image of whatever it\u0026rsquo;s pointed at?! You can takes thousands of these images and play them in quick succession?! You can use a joystick to control and change what happens on-screen?!\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;As a bewildering progression of technology, the newest step carries a degree of intrinsic wonder. The act of playing a videogame is\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem style=\u0022box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\u0022\u003Ein itself\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;just a really cool, interesting thing to be able to do.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp style=\u0022margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; line-height: 26px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(220, 220, 220);\u0022\u003EFor the full article, read\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/realspin\/2016\/10\/06\/death-of-the-gamer-why-the-term-gamer-matters\/#5910cf0e7b09\u0022 style=\u0022color: rgb(130, 81, 23);\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28513","created_gmt":"2016-10-07 15:49:04","changed_gmt":"2016-10-07 15:49:04","author":"Daniel Singer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Kausik Chakrabarti","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/realspin\/2016\/10\/06\/death-of-the-gamer-why-the-term-gamer-matters\/#5910cf0e7b09","dateline":{"date":"2016-10-06T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-10-06T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"252091":{"id":"252091","type":"image","title":"Ian Bogost","body":null,"created":"1449243813","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:43:33","changed":"1502475238","gmt_changed":"2017-08-11 18:13:58","alt":"Ian Bogost","file":{"fid":"226504","name":"bogost-color.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bogost-color.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bogost-color.png","mime":"image\/png","size":6216793,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/bogost-color.png?itok=1Az_4YGj"}}},"media_ids":["252091"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}