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Book Chapter
Duplicity
2011
Overview
Like many diligent scholars who study phenomena and artifacts that lack glister of maturity and rectitude—magic, board games, sports, zines, toys and autoerotic devices, to name a few—computer game scholars routineley lie about what it is they do.¹ Caught red-handed running a prostitute over with a milk truck in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, the typical game scholar’s reply (tinged with thinly veiled embarrassment) is “Oh, this? It’s just research.”
The lie here is not that using a game world’s industrial vehicles to down virtual streetwalkers is research. Anyone who has read a news paper or watched the
Publisher
University of Alabama Press
Subject
ISBN
0817317376, 9780817317379
