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Matt Knutson@mattknutson.bsky.social |
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Assistant professor at UND, director of academic program in esports. Research areas: game studies, gender and sexuality in digital spaces, media temporality, esports. Pronouns: he/him
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥
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📢 NEW ISSUE ALERT 📢 Take a break with the latest deep cuts in game history courtesy the one and only ROMCHIP: A JOURNAL OF GAME HISTORIES:
📜 @enwright.bsky.social on the historical discourses surrounding Pentiment's promotion and reviews
🕹️ Raiford Guins interviewing Atari engineers
romchip.org
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Matt Knutson
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So proud of this article in ROMchip and excited to share it! Thank you a million to @daveparisi.bsky.social and @lainenooney.bsky.social for the feedback throughout - the piece is so much better for it.
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥
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📢ATTN FREELANCE WRITERS📢
ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories is currently accepting pitches for a game history long read!
Scope is 2.5K-4K piece suitable to ROMchip's Materials section (focus is close reads of game history artifacts). Pay is $1000.
More info: donate.romchip.org/new-work.html
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Matt Knutson
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We don't talk enough about the toxic positivity of doggos.
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Matt Knutson
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Do other folks in academia say things like "scholars disagree" when arguing with their family, or is it just me?
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥
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👋For the past couple months, you’ve likely seen me posting extra hard abt ROMchip. We got a Twitch fundraiser this Saturday 5/11, 11AM-11PM EDT. But most of y’all probably don't even know what ROMchip is. Today I want to clear that up. I want you to see it the way I do. 👇
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Joseph Howley
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I really hope this is the last thing I have to publish about all this, but: I wrote for the Nation about Columbia’s suppression of speech about Palestine and its violation of the work we do in the classroom www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Prada 🇵🇸🍉♥️
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5.38pm NYC
NYU faculty and grad students will withhold final grades until their demands—which include divestment and banning cops from campus—are met.
CC Prof (NYU) @daveparisi.bsky.social
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andré carrington
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The students at my school did this. They negotiated for it, they got it, and they're disbanding their encampment now that they're done. Not one arrest. No police. The first campus in the UC system to do it.
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J. Mijin Cha
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Letter from Palestinian Universities to the Gaza encampments in the US: "In a moment of great darkness, your protests erupt and give hope for humanity that Justice is not an abstract concept but a continuous struggle that connects us all."
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Joshua J. Friedman
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Columbia AAUP chapter faculty statement, posted online by classics professor Joseph A. Howley and read aloud on WKCR: "Columbia faculty have spent the day offering our help to defuse the situation on Columbia’s campus and have been rebuffed or ignored."
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥
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These gifts keep giving! We're now at 18.6%...could we get to 20% before the weekend is over? What you give supports ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories: our copy editor, our hosting fees, and, If we hit our goals, commissioning new work!
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T.L. Taylor
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Happy to announce that, due to the support of the MIT Libraries and @mitpress.bsky.social, my first two books are now available as free PDF's ❤️ While they are very much histories at this point, hopefully they will still hold tidbits of interest!
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Matt Knutson
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To grant-writing! The cause of, and solution to, all of academia's problems.
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Carly A. Kocurek
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The book Matt Payne and I wrote about Ultima is now published! Free to read online, available in print. #gamestudies
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Matt Knutson
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Then I remembered that the building I was moving into was due to be demolished 18 months later, and the maudlin vision evaporated.
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Matt Knutson
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Moving into my new office last fall, I skipped up the steps with boxes in my arms, working up a sweat. By the third trip up, a romantic, Mr. Holland's Opus-esque vision had materialized: myself at retirement age, taking the steps down slowly and carefully, barely holding onto my sad boxes.
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Dr Izzy Jayasinghe
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A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”
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Matt Knutson
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Um yes, could I please get the raspberry heroin iced tea? Thanks!
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥
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📣FRIDAY April 12 @ 2PM EST // we're hosting
@poww.bsky.social for their talk "PEOPLE ORIENTATIONS: Toward a Transgender Video Game and Software History." LIVE on TWITCH 🧑💻
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Benj Edwards
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Attention video game fans! I co-wrote a Platform Studies book called Seeing Red: Nintendo's Virtual Boy with José Zagal for MIT Press, and it's coming out May 14th
You can pre-order it now on Amazon if you're wild about stereoscopic red consoles: www.amazon.com/Seeing-Red-N...
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Matt Knutson
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Social media platforms with the most BS notifications: 1. Discord 2. LinkedIn 3. Facebook
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Mar Hicks
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Conference CFP: Rethinking the Inevitability of AI: The Environmental and Social Impacts of Computing in Historical Context
April 22, 2024: 300-500 word paper proposals due
July 18, 2024: Date of online conference
Submit your fabulous work!
uva.theopenscholar.com/rethinking-t...
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Matt Knutson
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Haskell words of wisdom: invest in good mics before good cameras because the former are used for thr whole broadcast and you can get away with cheap cameras. Also, point cameras at something worth looking at and not just two people in front of a wall. Your facility is a character to use in shots.
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Matt Knutson
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It was! The whole panel was great, and Cael's argument was especially generative I thought.
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Matt Knutson
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If we were the only one, it wouldn't matter. It takes a village. Still the case that we're building the plane while we're flying it.
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Matt Knutson
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Wrote a support ticket to Riot, met with many questions. Do you want swag? Are you a student? Let's call you back. Then, they said they liked it. Then a big splash, people all over the globe got involved. Robert Morris just 1200 students then. Big news for them especially.
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Matt Knutson
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Things got moving quickly. Could offer 50% tuition and full room and board. Got space on campus at the same time. It came down to president's willingness to see beyond this was just a video gsme.
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Matt Knutson
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Was playing leagues legends, got beat often, it was always college players. Recognition moment: but how do you get buy in from the university? Had direct line to president, drafted a white paper, went through chain and eventually went to talk about it. It would validate unrecognized community.
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Matt Knutson
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Fireside chat with Kurt Melcher and Kevin Mitchell. Kevin: Kurt is the godfather of collegiate esports. 10 years since inception of esports at Robert Morris University. That is atale which has been told multiple times. Personally started gaming in arcade culture. Loved the challenge of gaming.
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Matt Knutson
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What are your schools doing to promote your programs and transparency about the skills students walk away with? Nikita: A lot of local high schools. Michelle: Have hard conversations, including what to avoid. What do we want and how are we going to get there?
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Seth: I was putting together a masters degree for esports in spring 2020. Covid hit, uni wanted to see the data. People will pull up research on # of programs out there, and they want to see flagship well known unis that get interest of administrators, from my experience.
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Q and A For someone going to their university, what is something you did to show merit behind esports program? Yugina: Foundation donors from alumni dollars were 30% higher than elsewhere. Nikita: If your student body wants it, that place will be packed all the time.
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Seth: What do we say to the doubters who say esports doesn't need to be a degree? Yujina: We buy into education when it's right to you. Michelle: I didn't say my kid needed to go to college. If you go, get the most out of it that you can. Until you figure it out, chip away at classes.
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Matt Knutson
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First afternoon session! Tying Academics to Esports Teams/Clubs: Michele King (William & Mary), Yujina Yun (soon to be UK), Nikita Bair (Syracuse University), Seth Jenny (Slippery Rock) – Moderator
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Matt Knutson
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This weekend's reflection.
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Matt Knutson
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Q and A Q: Women's tournaments are great, but when are we getting to gender parity? A: We've got to understand that esports started as a male-dominated, and we've gotten comfortable with that, but we need to get uncomfortable with that now.
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Matt Knutson
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Plenary Speaker: Jihan Johnston, Ph.D. student at UK studying under Kishonna Gray. Really great talk that, embarrassingly, I couldn't liveskeet because I had my hands full eating lunch after my panel finished.
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Matt Knutson
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Wim: Teaser - this fall there will be two new competitive titles that could be integrated into collegiate esports. Dan: For all the talk of a bubble popping, we're seeing continued growth.
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Jacob: Its providing value for our membership. In our world, no two programs look alike. Our job to support them on their path. When I get ncaa question, I say we want to emulate their compliance strengths. Adopt that - we copied the model. Value there. How can we help you?
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Wim: ...in scholastic. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Where would MLB be without little league? Dan: It's wise to maintain appropriate level of anxiety. Is ncaa going to come in and take us over, are the publishers? I don't freak out because I believe in member feedback.
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Jacob: Let's talk about the future. We know there's many leagues, and we know that's not sustainable. And there is esports winter to address. Wim: People talking like esports is going away. We know that while there is a contraction, there's never been more energy for eaports than there is right now
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Dan: If you have buy in from university, to get university aligned that's important. Expose teams by joining the right league, bring exposure to all those things.
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Wim: Importance of players as creators, not only promoting themselves but also the school leans in to help promote the player and school at the same time. Help the programs they're involved with. Natural thing to come out of college.
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Wim: Been banging on drum for years that industry should be far more involved in collegiate esports. Jacob: Pop of traditional sports during covid. What can we offer community? Keeps them connected. Become part of fabric of communities. College athletics is money loser but we know longterm ROI.
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Wim: League is all-consuming to organize and get schools playing weekly. The industry wants to support and is supporting platform, how to harness college from all angles of research. Help school build competitive practice, but broader platform to get industry support. Lab for larger understandings.
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Dan: doesn't have to be one league. Barrier to entry is not much. Are there specific initiatives that can enhance player development? Dan: It helps to have broadcast, not just play for its own sake but get some attention. Instances to put people out there and create opportunities.
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Wim: Recurring question at GDC: why is collegiate esports blowing up when business is having esports winter. Dan: Starts with "what are your goals?" Enrollment, publicity, national championships & competitive success, academic programming, or something that might change over time?
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Matt Knutson
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ECAC: Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference. Jacob VanRyn, President and Commissioner of NECC, National Esports Collegiate Conferences.
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Matt Knutson
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Bob Dranoff couldn't make it, unfortunately. Dan Coonin, President of ECAC. Wim Stocks, been in gaming industry for a long time. 2014, started Collegiate Star League. Starcraft, 35 schools on coast, leagues for playing SC competitively between schools. Ended up selling to private equity group.
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