<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hey Everyone,<div><br></div><div>I'm excited to let you know that noted games journalist Heather Chaplin will be speaking at the CMS colloquium this <b>Thursday at 5PM</b>. She is an excellent speaker and I encourage any of you who can make it to come to MIT. Information about the event below:</div><div><br></div><div><div class="event_data" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); padding-top: 25px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Arial, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Colloquium | 02.23.12 | 5:00 PM | <a href="http://whereis.mit.edu/?go=E14" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 51); ">E14-633</a></div><div class="event_title" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14pt; line-height: 1.2em; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Georgia, Arial, 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Games and Journalism</div><div class="event_speaker" style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, Arial, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 20px; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Heather Chaplin</div><div class="event_description" style="line-height: 20px; margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, Arial, 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><p>As a journalist covering games since 2001, Chaplin has seen a lot of changes in the industry and among game academics. In this talk she will give an overview of the most important and interesting trends, including emerging thinking on ideas about game literacies and the acceptance of games as facilitators of transformative experiences. This will include ideas about play as a crucial part of human development and a potentially subversive act, and the rise of systems thinking. Chaplin is not a games evangelist, so the talk will cast a skeptical eye on the current trend of games as an answer for all that ails society. She will also talk about my experiences in general as a journalist during the rise of the Internet, and share my thinking on the journalism program she is developing at The New School.</p><p><strong>Heather Chaplin</strong> is an assistant professor of journalism at The New School and author of the book,<em>Smartbomb: The Quest for Art Entertainment and Big Bucks in the Videogame Revolution</em>. Her work has appeared in <em>The New York Times</em>, <em>The Los Angeles Times</em>, <em>GQ</em>, <em>Details</em>, and <em>Salon</em>. She was a regular contributor for All Things Considered, covering videogames. She has been interviewed for and cited in on the topic of games for publications such as <em>The New Yorker</em>, <em>The Atlantic Monthly</em>, <em>The New York Times Magazine</em>, <em>Businessweek</em>, and <em>The Believer</em> and has appeared on shows such as Talk of the Nation, and CBS Sunday Morning.</p></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Abe</div><div><br></div><div><br><div>
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">Abe Stein</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">Researcher/Audio Director</span></font></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab</span></font></b></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</span></font></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">617-324-9072</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><a href="mailto:adstein@mit.edu">adstein@mit.edu</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">http;//gambit.mit.edu</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><a href="http://www.simplercreature.com">http://www.simplercreature.com</a></span></font></div><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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