{"586741":{"#nid":"586741","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Digital Pasts, Digital Futures at Georgia Tech: Atari Age","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch1\u003EretroTECH series continues Feb. 2\u003C\/h1\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EYou\u0026rsquo;re invited to join the Georgia Tech Library\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/retrotech.library.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EretroTECH Lab\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;and Georgia Tech Game Archaeology Lab from 11 a.m. to noon Thursday, Feb. 2 in room 102 of the Hall Building for \u0026quot;Digital Pasts, Digital Futures at Georgia Tech: Atari Age.\u0026quot;\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDuring their decade of emergence -- from 1972, when Pong was introduced, to the height of Pac-Man Fever in 1982 -- the new medium of video games was understood in contradictory ways. Would video games embody middle-class legitimacy or reflect the lingering disrepute of pinball arcades? Were they a new, participatory use for television or an intensification of television\u0026rsquo;s power? Would they foster family togetherness or allow boys to escape from domesticity? Would they make the new home computer a tool for education or a potentially wasteful toy? Michael Newman charts the emergence of video games in America from ball-and-paddle games to hits like Space Invaders and Pac-Man, describing their relationship to other amusements and technologies and showing how they came to be identified with the middle class, youth, and masculinity.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDr. Michael Newman is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Journalism, Advertising, and Media Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is the author of \u003Cem\u003EIndie: An American Film Culture\u003C\/em\u003E (2011), \u003Cem\u003EVideo Revolutions: On the History of a Medium\u003C\/em\u003E (2014), and the forthcoming \u003Cem\u003EAtari Age: The Emergence of Video Games in America\u003C\/em\u003E (2017). With Elana Levine, he is the co-author of \u003Cem\u003ELegitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status\u003C\/em\u003E (2012).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThere is no cost.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDigital Pasts, Digital Futures brings the community together for interdisciplinary conversations about the histories and futures of hardware, software, video games and digital culture.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoin the Georgia Tech Library\u0026nbsp;retroTECH Lab\u0026nbsp;and Georgia Tech Game Archaeology Lab for \u0026quot;Digital Pasts, Digital Futures at Georgia Tech: Atari Age.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Join the Georgia Tech Library\u00a0retroTECH Lab\u00a0and Georgia Tech Game Archaeology Lab for \u0022Digital Pasts, Digital Futures at Georgia Tech: Atari Age.\u0022"}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2017-02-01 14:16:45","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:13:02","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2017-02-02T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2017-02-02T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2017-02-02T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2017-02-02 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2017-02-02 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2017-02-02 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"586742":{"id":"586742","type":"image","title":"retroTECH: Atari Age","body":null,"created":"1485958627","gmt_created":"2017-02-01 14:17:07","changed":"1485958627","gmt_changed":"2017-02-01 14:17:07","alt":"","file":{"fid":"223603","name":"14a1c129-1997-47d9-b051-3e885287baf5.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/14a1c129-1997-47d9-b051-3e885287baf5.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/14a1c129-1997-47d9-b051-3e885287baf5.png","mime":"image\/png","size":1234700,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/14a1c129-1997-47d9-b051-3e885287baf5.png?itok=UBvEOX5u"}}},"media_ids":["586742"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/retrotech.library.gatech.edu\/","title":"retroTECH"}],"groups":[{"id":"1182","name":"General"},{"id":"47240","name":"Georgia Tech Library"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1205","name":"Library"},{"id":"104671","name":"retroTech"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"},{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}