MEDIA EVALUATION

MEDIA EVALUATION

Leigh Alexander writes about video games, interactive entertainment, and contemporary culture for a wide variety of publications. This 2013 essay is part of The Atlantic’s “Object Lessons” series: essays that explore the “hidden lives of ordinary things.” Perhaps nothing is more ordinary than bad pizza.

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Reading the Genre

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