Ian Bogost Books
Newsgames: Journalism at Play
By Ian Bogost
Journalism has embraced digital media in its struggle to survive. But most online journalism just translates existing practices to the Web: stories are written and edited as they are for print; vid...
Read MoreUnit Operations
By Ian Bogost
In Unit Operations, Ian Bogost argues that similar principles underlie both literary theory and computation, proposing a literary-technical theory that can be used to analyze particular videogames....
Read MoreThe Ecology of Games
By Katie Salen
An exploration of games as systems in which young people participate as gamers, producers, and learners.In the many studies of games and young people's use of them, little has been written about an...
Read MorePlay anything
By Ian Bogost
"Life is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands and emails. Nothing we'd ever call fun. But what if we've gotten fun wrong? In Play Anything, visionary game designer and philosopher Ian...
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