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Unnatural Selection

11 Feb 2018 · 0 min read
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Dom Ford
Postdoctoral Researcher
My research focuses on myth, digital game communities, monsters, spatiality and the representation and depiction of history and the past (both real and fictional histories) in digital games.
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