Code Studies and Videogames

SCMS (Boston) (Boston, Massachussets)
March 23, 2012

L11: Code Studies and Videogames
Room: Franklin
Chair: Zach Whalen (University of Mary Washington)

• Sheila Murphy (University of Michigan), “Parsing Code, Playing Games: A Mediation on Reading Video Games”
• Mark Sample (George Mason University), “A Revisionist History of JFK Reloaded (Decoded)”
• Zach Whalen (University of Mary Washington), “’//create magnetic children’: Game Code as Critical Paratext”
• Christopher Hanson (Syracuse University), “Mapping Levels of Abstraction and Materiality: Structuralist Games?”