{"58778":{"#nid":"58778","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Book Signing - Ian Bogost, LCC","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EIan Bogost signs his latest book \u003Cem\u003ERacing the Beam: the Atari Video Computing System\u003C\/em\u003E at the GT Barnes \u0026amp;  Noble at noon on April 2.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Atari Video Computer System dominated the home videogame market so completely that \u0022Atari\u0022 became the generic term for a videogame console. The Atari VCS was affordable and offered the flexibility of changeable cartridges. Nearly a thousand of these were created, the most significant of which established new techniques, mechanics, and even entire genres. This book offers a detailed and accessible study of this influential videogame console from both computational and cultural perspectives.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStudies of digital media have rarely investigated platforms\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Ian Bogost signs his latest book \u0022Racing the Beam: the Atari Video Computing System\u0022 at the GT Barnes \u0026amp;  Noble at noon on April 2","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Book signing at Barnes \u0026 Noble"}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2010-06-21 16:35:10","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:49:12","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2009-04-02T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2009-04-02T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2009-04-02T14:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2009-04-02 17:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2009-04-02 18:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2009-04-02 18:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"3661","name":"Barnes \u0026 Noble at GT"},{"id":"3662","name":"booksigning"},{"id":"3663","name":"Ian Bogost"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003ECarol Silvers\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIvan Allan College of Liberal Arts\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=cs70\u0022\u003EContact Carol Silvers\u003C\/a\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}