New Atlantis Grapples with Gaming and Flops

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Bryan Alexander: New Atlantis Grapples with Gaming and Flops, Infocult: Information, Culture, Policy, Education August 31, 2005
This article deconstructs (and slices and dices and serves for dinner) a narrow view of online gaming offered by The New Atlantis's Christine Rosen. Calling the article "ostentatiously, yet uselessly learned," Bryan Alexander asks why the author quotes a 1920s Samuel McChord Crothers essay while at the same time passing over Wittgenstein and other classic texts in gaming, misreading James Paul Gee, and serving scant mention of social gaming and massive online role-playing games (MORPGs). More...