The American University Game Center serves as a hub for experiential education, persuasive play research, and innovative production in games and play
Joined August 2014
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3 Mar 2020
Get your MFA in Games and Interactive Media or your MA in Game Design from @AmericanU! Unique opportunities to create games for change in DC american.edu/gamelab/mfa/ american.edu/gamelab/ma/ #augamelab @AU_SOC @AUcollege @AmericanUalum
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After an 83-year history, #AUSOC's Benjamin Stokes/@bgstokes brought major changes to the @PeabodyAwards, as "Interactive Media" - including Interactive Journalism, Games,Play & Documentary - was awarded for the first time. Learn more in our latest story. ow.ly/rfP250PeksC
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AU Game Center retweeted
17 Jul 2023
hanging out at the @UN with @G4C in NYC. Thinking on games and media relative to UN sustainability dev goals. @AU_SOC @auGameCenter @AUcollege @AUResearch #g4c2023 #g4c23
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AU Game Center retweeted
14 Jul 2023
Spent the week helping friends design curriculum for Interactive Digital Narrative in Malta as part of an @COST_INDCOR grant, with help and support from @theHEVGA. Wonderful to work with an amazing group. @AU_SOC @AUResearch @AUcollege @auGameCenter @hkoenitz @HogskolanSkovde
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AU Game Center retweeted
8 Jul 2023
new paper out with @Dashiellsteven on GTA discourse and male gender capital and gaming capital: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
grateful for all he does at @auGameCenter @AUResearch @AU_SOC @AUcollege
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AU Game Center retweeted
If you play #diablo hardcore we want to talk to you! @auGameCenter is doing online interviews w/ hardcore gamers to better understand their motivations. There is an incentive for participating, & interviews are only about 60 min long. Pls signal boost! #gamestudies
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AU Game Center retweeted
16 Jun 2023
Honored that my paper at @mens_studies #amsa23 conference won the best paper award for students & ECRs. Total #dagorhir epic glory #gamestudies #larp #masculinity
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17 Apr 2023
congrats to our resident post-doc on this great piece- check it out!! @AU_SOC @AUcollege
My piece at @ConversationEDU discussing Hogwart's Legacy and black players was just published! I examine #gamestudies and #bourdieu concepts to explain why there is a lot of interest in the game among Black players. theconversation.com/the-comp…
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AU Game Center retweeted
27 Mar 2023
I’ll be presenting “Of Platforms & Incngruities of Virtual Party Worlds (There is much more to the party than the house)” at @CoEGameCult Spring Seminar with @Dashiellsteven in Tampere in May! @auGameCenter @AU_SOC @AUcollege @HITLabNZ @UCArts @UCNZ_DSC Party on!
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25 Mar 2023
here’s a bunch of us at @Official_GDC from @auGameCenter, a pleasure to spend time with both current MFA students and alum! @AU_SOC @AUcollege
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AU Game Center retweeted
14 Mar 2023
hey all, i’ll be at @Official_GDC next week in my capacity as prez at @theHEVGA and also repping @auGameCenter and @HITLabNZ and @UCNZ_DSC. reach out to meet up! HEVGA members join us tuesday night for announcement of new #hevgaFellows @AU_SOC @AUcollege @UCNZ @UCNZArts @theESA
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AU Game Center retweeted
1 Feb 2023
super proud to have helped establish and kick off @UCNZ_DSC, a 130M new campus for film/games/digital media at @UCNZ. Humbled to worth with other founders and so excited to see what’s next in edu, research, entrp, and com partnership. @HITLabNZ @AU_SOC @AUcollege #auGameCenter
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1 Feb 2023
a reminder we are in the process of looking for some amazing MA and MFA candidates@to join us next year- come make games that have societal, governmental, democratic, and playful impact! Learn more at american.edu/centers/gamecen…
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AU Game Center retweeted
6 Jan 2023
Here’s the slides for our talk at #hicss56 @HICSSnews from me, @miaC, @bowmanspartan, and @Velixious at andyworld.io/writing/present… and also the paper at hdl.handle.net/10125/102919 @auGameCenter @AU_SOC @UCNZ_DSC @HITLabNZ
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3 Jan 2023
RT @Dashiellsteven: Out here representing @auGameCenter and @AUcollege being interviewed about Dungeons and Dragons and race!
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AU Game Center retweeted
6 Dec 2022
NEW SEARCH: open-rank researcher in Comm Policy, Tech and Democracy @AmericanU. Join us in DC -- an exceptional place for impact. Bring your center, or join folks like @InternetGov and @CMSImpact. Bridge schools @AU_SOC @AUWCL @AU_SIS @AU_SPA @Kogodbiz. apply.interfolio.com/118579
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AU Game Center retweeted
6 Dec 2022
A reminder that we are always looking for great MA and MFA candidates in games at the @augamecenter! Reach out to me if you need more information. #makeGreatGames #gamesedu
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22 Nov 2022
Thrilled to see our own @bgstokes recognized for his role in confounding @G4C in @WIRED. WTG both Ben and friends!
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AU Game Center retweeted
17 Nov 2022
If dates are to be believed, i've apparently been president at @theHEVGA for 5 years! More importantly, we passed another milestone & now rep more than 500 colleges & universities world-wide with games curriculum & research. #grateful #gamesedu @theESA @G4C @IGDA @IGDAFoundation
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AU Game Center retweeted
WOOT! Teaching my first graduate-level course - EVAR - and it is a course on the social nature of (wait for it) GAMERS. Yup! Here comes a #trpg #gamer #gamestudies class at @Americanunivers @auGameCenter !!
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