Benjamin Stokes

🎮🔥 Call for Games! 🔥🎮
I'm curating a show on GAMES AS PROTEST/ACTIVISM and looking for titles that explore resistance, civil disobedience, or political action.

Made one? Know one? DM or comment! Lets make some interactive uproar ✊️

More to come soon!

Reactionary Futurism 2025 | Los Angeles Review of Books Jordan S. Carroll reviews recent scholarship on the alt-right.

Gaming Democracy is described as "the book about Gamergate we have been waiting for" in this @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social roundup of new scholarship about the alt-right. I am thrilled to be in such good company with some scholars who I very much admire.

Super proud of all my @au-mtd.bsky.social people in Denver for #ICA25 #ICA2025. Lots of great scholarship and the karaoke ain't bad either.

Today at the #NoKings protest, some great fan activism and pop culture. In Denver adjoining #ICA2025

We are PROUD to live in the gayest city in the world. 🥰 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

Wahoo!! Congratulations. We are very proud to have you here at AU.

But I’ll never forget writing branching stories in BASIC with fixed line numbers. GOTO! And cheers to Kurtz and Kemeny!

My lab’s experimental software for neighborhood games, Hive Mechanic, is trying to support some of these same values to democratize the interactive *systems* in conjunction with playful storytelling. playfulcity.net/go/models-an...

These principles go beyond most efforts today at “user-centered” design, where the focus is on the interface - not necessarily the *system* - and rarely with the bravery to make tradeoffs in *efficiency*. (See recent work on “meaningful inefficiency” from Gordon and Mugar, 2020.)

For computer science and interactive authoring tools, his values remain provocative: a technologist should “always choose simplicity over efficiency.” And that “systems should be extremely easy for the casual user.”

Thomas E. Kurtz - Wikipedia

Goodbye to the coinventor of BASIC, who died earlier this month at the age of 96. My first real dive into programming was thanks in part to the design values of this man: Dr. Thomas Kurtz of Dartmouth, and his colleague John Kemeny. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...