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University of Wyoming Studies Video Games
krou writes "The Christian Science Monitor has an interesting story about how the University of Wyoming's English Department is helping fund a collective called the Learning Games Initiative to study video games. Jason Thompson, an assistant professor at UW who is part of the group, explains that 'it's a group of people [who] do research on games, do development on games, and keep an archive of games printed matter such as manuals, ... systems, all of it. We really look at games as cultural artifacts; things that reveal theology, things that reveal power. Things that should be studied in the academy.' The English Department has been very open-minded with the project, because they understand that gaming can educate people, and that 'we can expand our notion of what text and study is; the idea that it might be fun doesn't necessarily preclude its study.' Thompson believes that it's important for academia to study gaming, because games could be used in the future as a type of textbook: 'if games can teach, then as teachers shouldn't we understand what kind of teaching's going on?'"
It's better than Bull Dyke... err "Women's" studies...
Universities tend to be the place where this kind of "out of box" thinking takes place.
Really? Because Fox News and the Teaparty loonies seem to be convinced that Universities are where they indoctrinate the next generation of socialists.
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I always laugh when I hear them complaining that there are so many liberals amongst college professors, as well as among journalists.
I always want to ask if they ever think it might mean something that all of the best educated and best informed people have such a strong tendency to disagree with them...
If the masses can keep you down, you're not the Ubermensch.
I always want to ask if they ever think it might mean something that all of the best educated and best informed people have such a strong tendency to disagree with them...
I find it funny that being intelligent is now looked down upon, at least in the Republican/Conservative part of the political spectrum. "What? You have multiple degrees? You elitest!"
Sigh.
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You have no respect for it because you don't understand its goals?
Because you don't think there will be a difference between reading a brief summary on Slashdot and taking a full semester course in which one learns about anthropology, literature, philosophy, religion, history, and everything else they're going to have to use in such a class?
If the masses can keep you down, you're not the Ubermensch.