{"319451":{"#nid":"319451","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Bogost on Video Game Agency; Revoking Job Offers in Academia","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch3\u003EBogost on Agency in Video Games\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022[Games like] Bioshock and The Stanley Parable\u2026They\u0027re toying with the idea of the act of playing the game and becoming complicit in its directives. Both titles point to the issue of agency in games, [but] neither game really delivers. The answer might be to make games more literary. That means more ambiguous and writerly. More daring in their willingness not to fill in all of the blanks.\u0022 - \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/bogost\u0022\u003EIan Bogost\u003C\/a\u003E (LMC) on \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/video-games-trick-thinking-youre-130004506.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EYahoo News\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, August 18, 2014\u003C\/p\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ch3\u003EBogost on Revoking Job Offers in Academia\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Academics talk a lot about the decline of tenure, but we sure don\u2019t respect the perks of tenure in so doing. When giving up a job that\u2019s guaranteed for life and taking on a new one, a sensible person should be aware that they are walking a tightrope...Every offer letter has a weird loophole, and I don\u2019t think anybody thinks about it.\u0022 - \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.iac.gatech.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/bio\/bogost\u0022\u003EIan Bogost\u003C\/a\u003E (LMC) in \u003Cem\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/chroniclevitae.com\/news\/670-can-the-board-of-trustees-really-revoke-my-job-offer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EThe Chronicle of Higher Education Vitae\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E, August 21, 2014\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EIan Bogost is professor in the\u0026nbsp;School of\u0026nbsp;Literature, Media, and Communication\u0026nbsp;and the graduate program in Digital Media. His research addresses computation as an expressive and cultural practice, with a particular focus on videogames.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELMC and Digital Media professor Ian Bogost was featured on \u003Cem\u003EYahoo News\u003C\/em\u003E and in \u003Cem\u003EThe Chronicle of Higher Education Vitae\u003C\/em\u003E on the issues of agency in video games and UIUC\u0027s rescinding of a tenured professorship offer, respectively.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ian Bogost was featured on Yahoo News and in The Chronicle of Higher Education Vitae on the issue of agency in video games and UIUC\u0027s rescinding of a tenured professorship offer, respectively."}],"uid":"27889","created_gmt":"2014-08-27 13:54:04","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:16:59","author":"Beth Godfrey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-08-27T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-08-27T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"252091":{"id":"252091","type":"image","title":"Ian Bogost","body":null,"created":"1449243813","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:43:33","changed":"1502475238","gmt_changed":"2017-08-11 18:13:58","alt":"Ian Bogost","file":{"fid":"226504","name":"bogost-color.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bogost-color.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/bogost-color.png","mime":"image\/png","size":6216793,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/bogost-color.png?itok=1Az_4YGj"}}},"media_ids":["252091"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"41461","name":"academia"},{"id":"6236","name":"Agency"},{"id":"315","name":"bogost"},{"id":"2213","name":"Games"},{"id":"171356","name":"Salaita"},{"id":"3855","name":"tenure"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Erebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}