@noahjspringer

senior acquisitions editor for game studies and new media @mitpress | not on here much anymore | https://xitter.cf/t.co/pP6O0kf3Er to find me other places

 St Louis, MO
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TOMORROW! Repairing Play: A Playlist (w/ @aarontram) Thurs. Nov. 14th, 7pm - 8:30pm 370 Jay Street, Room 202 This talk will be a playful-joyus, yet also sorrowful and mournful-reading from Repairing Play juxtaposed against music from the book. RSVP Here: repairingplay.eventbrite.com
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Why the world needs less AI and better programming languages. "Moral Codes" by Alan Blackwell is available now 👉 bit.ly/3XgxNJm #OA #OpenAccess #AI
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Hallucinate This! makes a cameo in the new anthology of conputer generated text, edited by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Montfort out from MIT Press! @nickmofo @mitpress
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Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman's book "Intellivision: How a Videogame System Battled Atari and Almost Bankrupted Barbie" is out today in @mitpress's Platform Studies series. Get 30% off with discount code PUBDAY! mitpress.mit.edu/97802625495…

Intellivision

Astrosmash, Snafu, Star Strike, Utopia—do these names sound familiar to you? No? Maybe? They were all videogames created for the Intellivision videogame sy...

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Day 3 of #AoIR2024 … come get ya’lls books!
Noah…@noahjspringer1 Nov 2024
Alright, we’re ready for day 2 of #AOIR2024 at the @mitpress booth, and we start the give away today. Stop by the booth, sign up for our mailing list, and walk away with a book tomorrow! Plus, you’ll be put in a raffle for @hegemonyrules new book, “Gaming Democracy”
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Alright, we’re ready for day 2 of #AOIR2024 at the @mitpress booth, and we start the give away today. Stop by the booth, sign up for our mailing list, and walk away with a book tomorrow! Plus, you’ll be put in a raffle for @hegemonyrules new book, “Gaming Democracy”
Noah…@noahjspringer31 Oct 2024
The @mitpress is all set up at #AoIR2024! Stop on by to take a look at our books at sign up to win a copy of Adrienne Massanari’s new book “Gaming Democracy”
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Alright, we’re ready for day 2 of #AOIR2024 at the @mitpress booth, and we start the give away today. Stop by the booth, sign up for our mailing list, and walk away with a book tomorrow! Plus, you’ll be put in a raffle for @hegemonyrules new book, “Gaming Democracy”
Noah…@noahjspringer31 Oct 2024
The @mitpress is all set up at #AoIR2024! Stop on by to take a look at our books at sign up to win a copy of Adrienne Massanari’s new book “Gaming Democracy”
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First sighting of Toy Theory in the wild!
Noah…@noahjspringer31 Oct 2024
The @mitpress is all set up at #AoIR2024! Stop on by to take a look at our books at sign up to win a copy of Adrienne Massanari’s new book “Gaming Democracy”
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The @mitpress is all set up at #AoIR2024! Stop on by to take a look at our books at sign up to win a copy of Adrienne Massanari’s new book “Gaming Democracy”
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"My things to care about are stretched too thin, like too many skits on a mediocre ’90s 'classic.'" @noahjspringer tells us why he stopped focusing on hip hop in his column: unwinnable.com/2024/10/15/th…

The Anniversary - Unwinnable

I’m going to throw MF DOOM on for another spin and leave the hip hop critique for the next generation.

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Out today, my 1st anthology, DEEP DREAM: SCIENCE FICTION EXPLORING THE FUTURE OF ART (@mitpress). 10 writers imagine how art forms (and artists) might evolve, devolve, and transform across spacetime near and far, amid the myriad threats to all things creative. (link in 🧵)
Book cover: showing a honeycomb-like structure made out of root fibers, resembling a grid that spreads and breaks into a more chaotic, web-like pattern. Text reads 'Edited by Indrapramit Das, Deep Dream, Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art, New Stories by, Vajra Chandrasekera, Bruce Sterling, Cassandra Khaw, Lavie Tidhar, Samit Basu

ALT Book cover: showing a honeycomb-like structure made out of root fibers, resembling a grid that spreads and breaks into a more chaotic, web-like pattern. Text reads 'Edited by Indrapramit Das, Deep Dream, Science Fiction Exploring the Future of Art, New Stories by, Vajra Chandrasekera, Bruce Sterling, Cassandra Khaw, Lavie Tidhar, Samit Basu

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Payal Arora shares lessons from the #GlobalSouth on designing #Inclusive #Tech, and conveys a message of #hope, #optimism and positive disruption as she discusses her new #book with Dr Waseem Akhtar on Bridging the Gaps #SciComm @3Lmantra @mitpress bridgingthegaps.ie/2024/10/f…

“From Pessimism to Promise: Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech” with...

The news about emerging technologies often sounds alarming as well as discouraging. Headlines talk about how algorithms control and oppress people. There are fears that AI could harm democracy,...

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for the @LAReviewofBooks, I wrote about @cgingold's Building SimCity (a remarkable work of software history!), videogames as an art form, and what happens when Silicon Valley tries to play IRL SimCity…aka the controversial Californian Forever project 🌁🛠️
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The cover is here! (Book coming December 10th.) mitpress.mit.edu/97802625495…
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Come see @docetist @MikeWitwer and I talk 50 years of Dungeons & Dragons this weekend at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo! @Wizards_DnD #dnd
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Watching “$pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)” so I know how to vote on Missouri Amendment 2
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Oh look, I’ll be talking about peer review here!
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The essence of being human is that we are always grasping towards the totality, yet we cannot comprehend the totality due our finite nature. Of us all, Fredric Jameson perhaps came closest.
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Excited to share something new very soon. Stay tuned for October!
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"The West is suffering from pessimism paralysis [....] It is not naive to be optimistic about our digital future. It is our moral imperative to design with hope." — Payal Arora "From Pessimism to Promise" is available now: bit.ly/4bJOS2u #design #AI
Cover of the book "From Pessimism to Promise" featuring a large yellow circle and an illustration of a hand holding a black line that gives the effect of a smiley face. The subtitle reads "Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech."

ALT Cover of the book "From Pessimism to Promise" featuring a large yellow circle and an illustration of a hand holding a black line that gives the effect of a smiley face. The subtitle reads "Lessons from the Global South on Designing Inclusive Tech."

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