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Bryan-Mitchell Young aka jccalhoun


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Here at Indiana University there is a small cluster of videogame studies grauate students. The Department of Communication and Culture is looking for a new tenure track person with an interest in new media. I'd love to see someone videogame centric get hired. So if you are interested, here is the info:

New Media

The Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in new media to begin Fall 2004. We seek an individual who focuses on new media to join an innovative, interdisciplinary program that covers media studies, performance studies, and rhetoric. While we invite candidates from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, we encourage applicants involved in ethnographic or historical research that encompasses any type of emergent media defined as "new" in specific social and historical contexts. This may range from digital media and networked communication to the emergence of television, radio, video, or sound recording technologies in various socio-cultural settings, including nonwestern societies. Applicants should be prepared to discuss the role that these media play in shaping perceptions of history and culture, in forging individual and collective identities, and in mediating social change. Applicants are expected to have a strong research agenda and a commitment to excellence in teaching. Preference will be given to candidates who have their Ph.D. in hand by the date of appointment. Applicants should send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, writing sample, and three letters of recommendation. Review of applications will begin on November 14, 2003.
Address applications to: Christopher Anderson, Chair, New Media Search, Department of Communication and Culture, Mottier Hall, 1790 East 10th Street, Indiana University, Bloomington IN 47405-9700.

posted by Bryan-Mitchell at 9:20 PM

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First-Person Shooters Aren't Like Movies and That is a Good Thing --A paper about why Shooters aren't like films and how comparisons to them do a disservice to what Shooters are.

That paper was presented at the 2002 PCA under the title "More Than Moving Pictures: Developing New Criteria For Designing and Critiquing Computer Games. The presentation version can be found here. The handout I distributed can be found here.

Identification in First-Person Shooters

Flow in Multi-player FPS gaming (.rtf file)

my reviews

here are a couple of reviews I wrote for joystick101.org

Mark J. P. Wolf's The Medium of the Video Game.
Arthur Asa Bergers Video Games: A Popular Culture Phenomenon.