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Dungeons, Dragons, and Digital Denizens: The Digital Role-Playing Game
Again, this is another book used in video game criticism and interactive fiction independent study. Again, we read a few essays from the book. Again, I recommend this book for…
Guns, Grenades, and Grunts: First-Person Shooter Games
We used this book in the independent study I mentored, which was focused on video game criticism and interactive fiction. It's an interesting book, but honestly, we didn't read a…
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man by Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan's book guided me back to the path of media studies, which I hadn't even realized I'd been on. Between his book and The Information, I went back to…
Debates in Digital Humanities
Let me begin by saying this will be a disappointing book review. Not because the book is disappointing, but because, you, as a savvy reader, will be disappointed by the…
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
Look around you. See the computer or mobile device before your eyes. Now, step back in time. Imagine the 1980's, visualize a place without the Internet or mobile devices. Can…
The Points Don’t Matter: MOOCs, Resumes, and Learning
"The Points Don’t Matter: MOOCs, Resumes, and Learning" by Derek Bruff. Apparently, employers are starting to assign value to the SoAs they see on job applicants’ resumes. Coursera is worried that…
A Master’s in Chick Lit
I’m a genre writer. Gary Shteyngart hasn’t blurbed any of my novels, and Marion Ettlinger has never photographed me for a book jacket. I’m more at ease with the sequins and shirtless men at the Romantic Times conference than I am with the serious eyewear at poetry readings.
We’re Safe
Last night's tornado hit ten miles south of us and devastated Mayflower, before moving east toward Vilonia. Conway was unaffected by the storm, but not it's aftermath, as friends and…