AGP #5 - Compassion for Creators

Academic Gamer Podcast

In the Academic Gamer Podcast Episode #5, we consider the community activity surrounding the Game of Thrones series finale and discuss the relationship between creators and consumers of media. Twitter: https://twitter.com/AcademicGamer Email: [e-mail] Guests: Timothy Day (@TheTDay) https://twitter.com/thetday Papers: - R. Barthes. The death of the author. Aspen 5-6, 1967. - K. Bebbington, C. MacLeod, T. M. Ellison, and N. Fay. The sky is falling: evidence of a negativity bias in the social transmission of information. Evolution and Human Behavior, 38(1):92-101, 2017. - C. J. Walker and B. Blaine. The virulence of dread rumors: A field experiment. Language and Communication, 1991. - D. M. T. Fessler, A. C. Pisor, and C. D. Navarrette. Negatively-biased credulity and the cultural evolution of beliefs. PloS one, 9(4), 2014. - M. E. Rosenbaum and I. P. Levin. Impression formation as a function of source credibility and the polarity of information. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 12(1):34-37, 1969. Intro/Outro music by Ozzed (https://ozzed.net)