FORA.tv Speaker - Ian Bogost

Dr. Ian Bogost is a video game designer, critic, and researcher. He is a Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Founding Partner at Persuasive Games LLC. His research and writing considers video games as an expressive medium, and his creative practice focuses on games about social and political issues.

Bogost is author of Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism, recently listed among "50 books for everyone in the game industry," and of Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames, along with several other books and many other writings. He is a popular speaker and widely considered an influential thinker and doer in the video game industry and research community.