# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ian-bogost
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:21:27.382Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ian-bogost"
name: "Ian Bogost"
slug: "ian-bogost"
description: "Ian Bogost is an American academic and video game designer, most known for the game Cow Clicker. He holds a joint professorship at Washington University as director and professor of the Film and Media Studies program in Arts & Sciences and the McKelvey School of Engineering. He previously held a joint professorship in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication and in Interactive Computing in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he was the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Chair in Media Studies."
tagline: "American philosopher, video game designer (born 1976)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ian_Bogost_SWES_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1976-12-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.956819739547635
  historical:           5.955730666666668
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  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/ibogost"
    handle:    "ibogost"
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    url:       "http://www.bogost.com"
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    title: "Ian Bogost"
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    title: "イアン・ボゴスト"
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    title: "이언 보고스트"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump