Topic
Making a Game of It: When Humans and Machines Intersect (or not)

Textbook reading (req.)
JH and JM, Video Games Chapters 2-5 (pp. 23-112)

□ "The Impact of Video Games on Culture" from Understanding Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication / U of Minn Libraries

::: Next Step Supplementary Readings: Choose One Group and then Choose How Much/What to Look at/Watch for this Week's Discussion Post

Set A
□ [video] "Pinball Panic! The New York City Pinball Ban," [12 min] Arcadology (July 2020)
□ Lindsay Grace, "Games blamed for moral decline and addiction throughout history," The Conversation (October 2019)
□ Alex Abad-Santos," The insane history of how American paranoia ruined and censored comic books," Vox (2014)
□ [video] "Dungeons and Dragons: Satanic Panic," [13 min] New York Times Retro-Report (2016)

Set B
□ [video] Andre Meadows, "Role-playing Games" [10 min] / Crash Course Games #18 (2016])
□ John-Paul Dyson, "The Influence of Dungeons and Dragons on Video Games" / Museum of Play's "Play Stuff" Blog (2011)
□ Tracy Wilson, Josh Clark and Kate Kershner,"Beginner's Guide to Dungeons and Dragons," at HowStuffWorks
□ Tracy Wilson, "How LARP Works," at HowStuffWorks

Set C
□ Jessica Contrera, "It's No Puzzle Why 'Escape Room' Adventures are so Popular," Washington Post (2015)
□ [video] Marvel Studios' Avengers: Endgame | Escape Room [4:15 min] (2019)
□ Rachel Sugar, "The Great Escape: In a Chaotic World Escape Rooms Make Sense," Vox (2019)
□ Mike Roe, "Coronavirus Shut Down Popular Escape Rooms. Now The Industry Is Going Virtual," LAist (2020)

Read/Watch for historical context on media, kids, and science

□ “Science Television the Sputnik Age,” by Ingrid Ockert in Physics Today (9.22.2017)
□ Children's Science Television from the 1950s and 1990s: Watch Mr. Wizard! "Six Kinds of Electricity" (1951; 28 min)
and Bill Nye, the Science Guy, "Chemical Reactions" (1994; 23 min)