Nick Dyer-Witheford (born 1951) is an American author and associate professor at the University of Western Ontario in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies. His area of study primarily focuses on the rise of technology and the internet, as well as their continuous impact on modern society. He has written six books, along with seventeen other publications. Work. Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games is Dyer-Witheford's third book, published in 2009 and cowritten with Greg de Peuter.
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