{"id":143,"date":"2004-12-13T17:48:34","date_gmt":"2004-12-13T15:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.dk\/ludologist\/?p=143"},"modified":"2004-12-13T21:39:06","modified_gmt":"2004-12-13T19:39:06","slug":"academics-are-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2004\/12\/13\/academics-are-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Academics are Stupid!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, I say the above frequently.<\/p>\n<p>But in <a href=\"http:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/catalog\/item\/default.asp?sid=91AC1A83-08AB-4FA1-86B6-418F7AAF4322&#038;ttype=2&#038;tid=9908\">First Person<\/a>, Mark Barrett has written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electronicbookreview.com\/v3\/servlet\/ebr?command=view_essay&#038;essay_id=barrettr1\">a response to Janet Murray&#8217;s article on cyberdrama<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Discussion at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intelligent-artifice.com\/2004\/12\/on_academia.html\">Intelligent Artifice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Suffice to say that video game academics (all of us) get a terrible review.  If you ask me, Barrett is doing some unnuanced generalizations, and he is about as wrong as he is right.<br \/>\nSince he seems to heavily dislike all academic video game theory ever, I wonder what kind of theory he <em>would <\/em>like? What would industry- (or Barrett-) friendly theory look like?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, I say the above frequently. But in First Person, Mark Barrett has written a response to Janet Murray&#8217;s article on cyberdrama. Discussion at Intelligent Artifice. Suffice to say that video game academics (all of us) get a terrible review. If you ask me, Barrett is doing some unnuanced generalizations, and he is about as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2004\/12\/13\/academics-are-stupid\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Academics are Stupid!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}