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SimKnowledge

Posted on July 28, 2015January 11, 2018 By sethgiddings
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Museum mission in Call of Duty 2: Modern Warfare (Infinity Ward: 2009)

I have a chapter in Michelle Henning’s Museum Media, one of Wiley’s new International Handbooks of Museum Studies. It’s called ‘SimKnowledge: what museums can learn from videogames’. PDF here.

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