Fall 2005 -- SPCM 496-CS, Prof. Sandvig
 
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September 28, 2005 (Wednesday)

PART II: Settings & Consequences
 [Major Section Begins]


Selected History of Play and Games [Meeting]


All But War is Simulation [Web Reading]

Lenoir, T. (2000). All But War is Simulation: The Military-Entertainment Complex. Configurations, 8(3), 289-335. (UIUC library electronic journal, use a UIUC on-campus computer to click on this link)
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/configurations/v008/8.3lenoir.pdf

If the above URL doesn't work because you are off-campus, try this URL instead http://www.library.uiuc.edu/orr/get.php?instid=23380 (UIUC NetID and password required). Then navigate to volume 8, issue 3 and find the article.


Spacewar [Web Reading]

OPTIONAL: Brand, S. (1972, 7 December). Spacewar: Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums. Rolling Stone.
http://www.wheels.org/spacewar/stone/rolling_stone.html


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