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Aubrey Anable on Why Video Games Compel us to Play

January 23, 2018

Film Studies Prof. Aubrey Anable discusses her research on why video games compel us to play and how they constitute a contemporary structure of feeling emerging alongside the last sixty years of computerized living. Look for Prof. Anable’s forthcoming book Playing with Feelings: Video Games and Affect (University of Minnesota Press, Spring 2018).

 

 

A view of campus and Dunton Tower during a winter day.

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The south end of campus next to the Rideau River during winter.

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