I'm hoping to make the SIGCIS community aware of a book series I co-edit at the MIT Press called Platform Studies, which invites books that investigate the relationships between the hardware and software design of computing systems and the creative or cultural works produced with those systems. I co-authored the first book in the series on the Atari VCS, and we have books out next year on the Amiga and the Wii. We're actively seeking new books and I have a suspicion that some of the SIGCIS folks might have
Hello everyone, Below is a message relayed from Ian Bogost regarding the new MIT Press platform studies series. I like his book on the VCS a lot, and thanks to MIT Press one lucky bidder will be walking away with a copy at our auction tomorrow. (We'll also be auctioning his Persuasive Games and some related titles such as Code/Play and The Machinima Reader). In general it would be great to get the history of computing community more involved with the various new movements emerging such as "platform studies," "software studies," "critical code studies," "demoscene studies," etc. As historians we've rather under conceptualized software and haven't done much to probe it as a new and interesting kind of artifact. Likewise a historical perspective could strengthen these other fields. Tom projects that would be appropriate, as we're particularly interested in historical topics. Here are a couple links:
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/browse/browse.asp?btype=6 <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/browse/browse.asp?btype=6&serid=172> &serid=172
Ian
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