Steven Poole

Steven Poole

Steven Poole (born 1972) is a British author and journalist.

Educated at Cambridge, Poole is the author of the book "Trigger Happy" (2000), an attempt to examine videogames in detail in terms of their aesthetics. He has since discussed the subject in a monthly column in Edge (which ran until March 2005) and in a BBC documentary. He has also written for "The Guardian", "The Times" and other newspapers.

He has also written "Unspeak", a book about the use of language as a weapon in politics.

Books

* "Unspeak: How words become weapons, how weapons become a message, and how that message becomes reality". Grove Press. 2006. ISBN 9780802118257
* "Trigger Happy: videogames and the entertainment revolution". Arcade Publishing 2000. ISBN 1559705396

External links

* [http://www.unspeak.net Unspeak website]
* [http://www.stevenpoole.net Steven Poole's website] , which contains [http://stevenpoole.net/trigger-happy/ an archive of the columns he has written for Edge.]


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