{"464961":{"#nid":"464961","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ian Bogost\u0027s new book to be published Nov. 15","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EHow to Talk About Videogames\u003C\/em\u003E is coming soon. Here\u0027s a bit of insight straight from \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bogost.com\/books\/how-to-talk-about-videogames\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBogost\u0027s website\u003C\/a\u003E:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Videogames! Aren\u2019t they the medium of the twenty-first century? The new cinema? The apotheosis of art and entertainment, the realization of Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk? The final victory of interaction over passivity? No, probably not. Games are part art and part appliance, part tableau and part toaster. In How to Talk about Videogames, leading critic Ian Bogost explores this paradox more thoroughly than any other author to date.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bogost.com\/books\/how-to-talk-about-videogames\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ERead all about it here\u003C\/a\u003E, or go straight to \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0816699127\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;camp=1789\u0026amp;creative=390957\u0026amp;creativeASIN=0816699127\u0026amp;linkCode=as2\u0026amp;tag=bogost-20\u0026amp;linkId=GYJNQEDWMSFVV4BL\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Epre-ordering a copy\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"\u201cThis is Ian Bogost at his best. Keen intelligence, acid wit, and a restless desire to look beyond the surface and tease out games\u2019 less obvious, more important meanings.\u201d \u2014Frank Lantz, director, NYU Game Center"}],"uid":"28518","created_gmt":"2015-10-30 18:12:20","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:54","author":"Jessica Anderson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-10-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-10-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"464951":{"id":"464951","type":"image","title":"Ian Bogost","body":null,"created":"1449256395","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:13:15","changed":"1475895211","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:31","alt":"Ian Bogost","file":{"fid":"203717","name":"41kryk0zhul.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/41kryk0zhul_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/41kryk0zhul_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":24980,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/41kryk0zhul_0.jpg?itok=JhvIJtex"}}},"media_ids":["464951"],"groups":[{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}