Mary Ann Buckles

Mary Ann Buckles is widely credited as the first academic to research and speculate about the emotional and cultural impact of videogames. Buckles’s dissertation, "Interactive Fiction: The Computer Storygame ‘Adventure^{[disambiguation needed ]}’", gained attention twenty years after Buckles presented it to the department of German literature at the University of California, San Diego. Espen Aaresth, a researcher in Copenhagen, is credited with raising the profile of Buckles’s dissertation, which Aarseth quotes eight times in his own book, Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature.^[1]

As of 2006^[update], Buckles works as a massage therapist in San Diego, California.^[2]

References

1. ^ Erard, Michael (6 May 2004). "2 Decades Later; Let Down by Academia, Game Pioneer". The New York Times. p. 5. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/06/technology/2-decades-later-let-down-by-academia-game-pioneer-changed-paths.html?pagewanted=all. Retrieved 17 September 2011. 
2. ^ Hebert, James. "Accidental traveler in a brave new world". San Diego Union-Tribune. http://legacy.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20060122-9999-lz1a22buckles.html. Retrieved 17 September 2011. 

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