Papers by Richard Colby
Computers and Composition, 2014
Computers and Composition, 2008
... 6. An emergent approach to World of Warcraft. Blizzard Entertainment's WoW d... more ... 6. An emergent approach to World of Warcraft. Blizzard Entertainment's WoW debuted in 2004 and currently boasts ten million subscribers worldwide (Blizzard, 2008). It is rare to teach a class that does not have at least one student who actively plays WoW. ...
Podcasts by Richard Colby
Kyle Stedman of Plugs, Play, and Pedagogy invited me to talk about games. In this episode, I part... more Kyle Stedman of Plugs, Play, and Pedagogy invited me to talk about games. In this episode, I participate in a group discussion with Kyle and Stephanie Vie, and earlier in this same podcast is a discussion with the excellent Rebekah Schultz Colby and Richard Colby. It makes me smile to see the title as "grumble grumble" since this is a rare moment in which I feel fairly positive about games. In this, I talk about material affordances; games as ideological systems; games, tradition, and nostalgia; and spectatorship.
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Papers by Richard Colby
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