{"id":45424,"date":"2018-01-23T17:21:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T22:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=45424"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:46","slug":"aubrey-anable-on-why-video-games-compel-us-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2018\/aubrey-anable-on-why-video-games-compel-us-to-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Aubrey Anable on Why Video Games Compel us to Play"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Aubrey Anable on Why Video Games Compel us to Play\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Film Studies Prof. Aubrey Anable discusses her research on why video games compel us to play and how they constitute a contemporary structure of feeling emerging alongside the last sixty years of computerized living. Look for Prof. Anable&#8217;s forthcoming book Playing with Feelings: Video Games and Affect (University of Minnesota Press, Spring 2018).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Discovering FASS Research \u2013 Researching Video Games w\/ Prof. Anable\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IW7MrHGNM1A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Film Studies Prof. Aubrey Anable discusses her research on why video games compel us to play and how they constitute a contemporary structure of feeling emerging alongside the last sixty years of computerized living. Look for Prof. Anable&#8217;s forthcoming book Playing with Feelings: Video Games and Affect (University of Minnesota Press, Spring 2018). &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":46985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-45424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-fass"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46986,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45424\/revisions\/46986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}