The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist, my new book with @themitpress is out now! This is my attempt to intervene in how we talk and think about gamemaking as not just an entertainment industry but as a cultural field, built up from complex tensions between commercial and creative pressures and identities.

It's open access, and you can read it here: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5572/The-Videogame-Industry-Does-Not-ExistWhy-We-Should

I wrote a long thread on Twitter with a bunch of excerpts which I won't reproduce here, but it's there if you're interested: https://twitter.com/BRKeogh/status/1648452116749643778

#gamestudies #mediastudies #culturalindustries #culturalproduction #commodon #gamedev

I have a new game! And it is out now:

Drift Mine Satellite is a maintenance text adventure about a person living underground in a limestone mine, and their work on the local communication network that has sprung up there.

It is a utopian apocalypse fantasy, a forever-camping world narrowed to linear miles of RVs parked under a mountain, the people who live in them, and the systems that interconnect them, both social and material.

Find Drift Mine Satellite here; http://solarprotocol.net/sunthinking/#pipkin

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Research shows that people don't say "um" and "uh" because of nervousness.

Instead, one reason people say "um" and "uh" is that it tells listeners you want to keep talking.

The amazing thing is that we don't use them nearly as much when we're talking to a computer, like Siri, or when we're giving a formal talk—because we don't expect to be interrupted!

#linguistics #podcast #communication #PublicSpeaking #GrammarGirl