{"id":529,"date":"2020-12-17T13:59:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T13:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/?p=529"},"modified":"2020-12-17T13:59:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T13:59:46","slug":"john-wills-gives-talk-about-new-book-gamer-nation-at-usso-book-hour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/2020\/12\/17\/john-wills-gives-talk-about-new-book-gamer-nation-at-usso-book-hour\/","title":{"rendered":"John Wills gives talk about new book, Gamer Nation, at USSO Book Hour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Director of the Centre for American Studies, John Wills, recently gave a talk titled, &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/usso.uk\/ussobookhour-with-john-wills-and-patrick-jagoda\/\">Play America and Video Games in an Experimental Age<\/a>&#8216; about his new book <em>Gamer Nation<\/em>, along with Patrick Jagoda from the University of Chicago and his new book.<\/p>\n<p>John Wills&#8217; new book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Gamer-Nation-Video-American-Culture\/dp\/1421428709\"><em>Gamer Nation<\/em><\/a>, explores how games actively influence the ways people interpret and relate to American life. It explores the relationship between U.S. culture and video games, highlighting a few gaming titles that in their own way have something distinctive to say about the American experience.<\/p>\n<p>The talk was part of the U.S. Studies Online fourth #USSOBOOKHOUR, followed by a Q&amp;A.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director of the Centre for American Studies, John Wills, recently gave a talk titled, &#8216;Play America and Video Games in an Experimental Age&#8216; about his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/2020\/12\/17\/john-wills-gives-talk-about-new-book-gamer-nation-at-usso-book-hour\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40592,"featured_media":530,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/amst-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}