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> Due: Two resources to Diigo + annotated bibliography with at least ten sources, of which at least two must be from Project Muse and/or JSTOR, revised for grading. Note: if you're having trouble with formatting the annotated bibliography om your blog, you could try putting it in Google Docs and linking it to your blog. (You'll write your essay in Google Docs.)

> Diigo bookmarks

> Research topic: gaming

• Who plays games? What games do you play?
• Do games supplant narratives/writing as privileged cultural forms? (over 72% of all people in the US played video games last year, whereas more than 25% read no books in the last year)
• How is "playing" like "reading"?
• Is a game a narrative? Is it a kind of writing? Or are games a fundamentally different type of thing? (e.g. difference in types of events, difference in speakers, difference in temporality)
  
• Are things that we agree are games (chess? football?) also narratives? How about Tetris? Is it a narrative? Why or why not?
  
• OK, then is Zork a game? How so?
  
• Look at Nelson's Evidence. What is it? (game? narrative?) How about September 12 (which declares "This is not a game.")?
• What is the role of narrative/writing within games? How do games contain stories or comes within a story? We may narrate a game after the fact, but is this part of the game? (How?) Look at Dead-in-Iraq.
• What about hybrids? e.g. modding communities such as Sims3 modding, or PacManhattan, or Machinima ("Who's the tank?"), movies and books based on games (Resident Evil, Doom, etc.)