Episode 3 of "The Exploits of Play" with guest Dr. Tom Boland explores how the game changes the player and how this fits into western literature's beloved 'character arc' as well as the new age obsession with personal transformation. Tom Boland is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University College Cork. His main research interests are in critique, culture, unemployment and welfare though recently Dr. Boland has been interested in the proliferance of dystopian games media such as The Hunger Games and “Squid Game”.

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Credits:

Founder and organizer of Weird Economies: Bahar Noorizadeh

Host: Max Haiven

Producer: Halle Frost

Sound editor: Faye Harvey

Sponsor: Canada Council for the Arts

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