Abstract :
Ian Bogost is a scholar, author, and game designer. He is professor and director of the Graduate Program in Digital Media at the Georgia Institute of Technology and founding partner at Persuasive Games LLC. As an author, he writes about video games as a medium with many uses. As a game designer, he makes games for political, social, educational, and artistic uses. Bogost is author or co-author of eight books including: Unit Operations, Persuasive Games, Racing the Beam, Newsgames, How To Do Things with Videogames, and Alien Phenomenology. Bogost´s video games cover topics as varied as airport security, disaffected workers, the petroleum industry, and tort reform. His game A Slow Year, a collection of game poems for Atari, won the Vanguard and Virtuoso awards at the 2010 Indiecade Festival.
