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Ian Bogost

Ian Bogost is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and the Director of the Program in Film & Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. His latest book is Play Anything.

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America Will Sacrifice Anything for the College Experience

The pandemic has revealed that higher education was never about education.

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October 20, 2020

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Why People Keep Asking Which Vaccine You Got

Vaccine small talk has given America something to chat about again.
- Ian Bogost
- March 29, 2021
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You’re Thinking About Home Heating Wrong

Getting a heat pump is one of the easiest ways for homeowners to fight climate change.
- Ian Bogost
- February 26, 2021
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How Will the Future Remember COVID-19?

Three visions for a hypothetical pandemic memorial
- Ian Bogost
- November 24, 2020
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Welcome to Election Purgatory

Time has stopped. Just keep scrolling.
- Ian Bogost
- November 6, 2020
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Your Phone Wasn’t Built for the Apocalypse

Why the orange sky looks gray
- Ian Bogost
- September 11, 2020
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For Whom the Tok Tiks

TikTok could persist in many ways in America. None is good.
- Ian Bogost
- August 6, 2020
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The Tech Companies Already Won

Antitrust could break up the big players. It wouldn’t change everyday life.
- Ian Bogost
- July 30, 2020
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So Much for the Decentralized Internet

A recent Twitter hack probably didn’t scare you. Here’s why it should.
- Ian Bogost
- July 26, 2020
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A Bomb in the Desert

Seventy-five years ago, America set off the world’s first nuclear explosion.
- Ian Bogost
- July 16, 2020
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College Leaders Have the Wrong Incentives

If we want university presidents to safeguard the well-being of their communities, we need to change the way they’re evaluated.
- Ian Bogost
- June 30, 2020
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Revenge of the Suburbs

Suburbia was never as bad as anyone said it was. Now it’s looking even better.
- Ian Bogost
- June 19, 2020
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The Silence of the Never Facebookers

Even fed-up tech workers are paralyzed by Silicon Valley’s culture.
- Ian Bogost
- June 10, 2020
How Facebook Works for Trump

Donald Trump won the presidency by using the social network’s advertising machinery in exactly the way the company wanted. He’s poised to do it again.
- Ian Bogost and Alexis C. Madrigal
- April 17, 2020
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The Supermarket After the Pandemic

The coronavirus will change grocery stores, and probably not for the better.
- Ian Bogost
- April 17, 2020
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The Quiet Revolution of Animal Crossing

In the midst of a pandemic, it’s delightful to imagine doing whatever you like without worrying about making a living.
- Ian Bogost
- April 15, 2020
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When the Checkpoints Come

How will Americans react when restrictions on their movements are no longer voluntary?
- Ian Bogost
- March 19, 2020
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Now Is the Time to Overreact

If the measures we're taking to fight the coronavirus work, they'll look excessive later on. But the alternative is worse.
- Ian Bogost
- March 16, 2020
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You Already Live in Quarantine

Being holed up at home has never been more pleasant.
- Ian Bogost
- March 4, 2020
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It Doesn’t Matter If Anyone Exists or Not

What a website that generates infinite fake humans tells us about modern life
- Ian Bogost
- February 24, 2020
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Every Place Is the Same Now

With a phone, anywhere else is always just a tap away.
- Ian Bogost
- January 16, 2020