Dr. Emma Vossen

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a general strike shut down italy on monday in support of palestine & now this is happening. international worker solidarity still has power!!

Ultra-Orthodox Jews with Palestine flags

Ultra-Orthodox Jew with Palestine flag

Anti-Zionist Jews gathered in the streets of Jerusalem to support a state of Palestine.

Zionists cannot stand seeing the Palestine flag on the streets of Jerusalem.

The capital of the State of Palestine is Jerusalem.

Judaism is NOT Zionism 🇵🇸✡️

(Credit: Jewish Voice)

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Game Studies (MA) The MA in Game Studies is an interdisciplinary and interfaculty program designed to provide students with a well-rounded, high-quality venue for studying and designing games in all their forms. Throug...

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Please please please everyone (pls reskeet) who is involved with a uni/college academic program (broadly speaking) conected to games Could you write a quick comment + links if any apply to what you and your institution are doing in that sphere? I need to show what's out there. 1/
#AncientBluesky 🗃️

Seeing the book you spent five years working on for sale on Amazon: 🙂

Seeing the book you spent five years working on ready for people to read and cite on JSTOR: 😀😁😃😍😇😭🥰

I wasn't thinking that at all! Your convo just came up in my feed and I was thinking I could restore some faith in people teaching games/media! Sorry if it came off the wrong way 💜.

@sparklebliss.bsky.social , @emmavphd.bsky.social , Alisha, and I were recently on the New Books Network podcast to talk about Historiographies of Game Studies! Check it out! And huge thanks to Rudolf Thomas Inderst for having us on!

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Just want to let you guys know that I teach video game history! There are defo a lot of trash men in this arena but a lot of good people of all genders too!

Utah was the first state to allow open carry on campus. A would-be assailant could walk right onto campus armed as they please and nobody could’ve done a thing about it.

The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts.

Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.

Thank you for the shout-out!!! <3

Congratulations @emmavphd.bsky.social, @sparklebliss.bsky.social, @cmejeur.bsky.social, and @onlyalishak.bsky.social! And thanks to @punctumbooks.bsky.social for publishing! 👾

Find "Historiographies of Game Studies" on JSTOR here: bit.ly/3JDOha2

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After 5 years of hard work by @sparklebliss.bsky.social, @cmejeur.bsky.social, @onlyalishak.bsky.social, myself, our contributors, and the lovely people at @punctumbooks.bsky.social Historiographies of Game Studies is out NOW! You can read all 780 pages for FREE. 🔓
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It is, indeed, a VERY BIG BOOK. 780 pages and FREE to download here:

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#gaming #GameStudies

Came in from mowing the yard to find my editor copies arrived! She’s here, and she’s CHONKY. So much great game studies content past, present, and future in this collection. Get your free open access ebook or order a physical copy at @punctumbooks.bsky.social website!

Congrats, Emma, Alisha Karabinus, @sparklebliss.bsky.social, and @cmejeur.bsky.social! Fantastic collection with a TOC that makes me salivate to keep reading. What I've already read is wonderful. It's going to do heavy lifting in the intro course for my new Game & Media Studies program!

Seeing the book you spent five years working on for sale on Amazon: 🙂

Seeing the book you spent five years working on ready for people to read and cite on JSTOR: 😀😁😃😍😇😭🥰

I hope this book can be a lifeboat for students studying games around the world—especially those who feel lost, confused, or misunderstood.

While I think anyone studying games can benefit from the book, it was assembled first and foremost for students. For the five years we worked on the book, I was thinking about my time as a student and how unnecessarily combative and competitive it was. I was always one foot out of #gamestudies.

I am sure I am not the only person who still prefers to read a physical book with pen and Post-it note in hand. As a grad student, it was so informative and valuable to my research to be able to physically hold and mark up books as well as accessing (and never marking up!!!) books from the library.

2) I've always hated the idea that some academic books are priced for libraries and not for scholars. Even though the book is free online, it is essential that physical copies are not astronomically priced. $35 USD for a physical copy is an AMAZING price for a print copy of a 780-page academic book!

Before I get into the chapters themselves, I want to highlight a few things.

1) From the get-go, we all agreed that we were not interested in any version of this project that wasn't OA. We did NOT know it was going to be 800 pages 😬😳 @punctumbooks.bsky.social is INCREDIBLE for making it work!

Over the past month, I have been in the process of both starting a new job and moving my family to a new city! Now that we are relocated, I am hoping to share a bit about each chapter in this book via this thread in the coming days/weeks! I want to unpack HOGS for you as I unpack my literal boxes.

After 5 years of hard work by @sparklebliss.bsky.social, @cmejeur.bsky.social, @onlyalishak.bsky.social, myself, our contributors, and the lovely people at @punctumbooks.bsky.social Historiographies of Game Studies is out NOW! You can read all 780 pages for FREE. 🔓
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