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Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism
01 Jan 2006-
TL;DR: In Unit Operations, Ian Bogost argues that similar principles underlie both literary theory and computation, proposing a literary-technical theory that can be used to analyze particular videogames and argues for the possibility of real collaboration between the humanities and information technology.
Abstract: In Unit Operations, Ian Bogost argues that similar principles underlie both literary theory and computation, proposing a literary-technical theory that can be used to analyze particular videogames. Moreover, this approach can be applied beyond videogames: Bogost suggests that any medium -- from videogames to poetry, literature, cinema, or art -- can be read as a configurative system of discrete, interlocking units of meaning, and he illustrates this method of analysis with examples from all these fields. The marriage of literary theory and information technology, he argues, will help humanists take technology more seriously and hep technologists better understand software and videogames as cultural artifacts. This approach is especially useful for the comparative analysis of digital and nondigital artifacts and allows scholars from other fields who are interested in studying videogames to avoid the esoteric isolation of "game studies." The richness of Bogost's comparative approach can be seen in his discussions of works by such philosophers and theorists as Plato, Badiou, Zizek, and McLuhan, and in his analysis of numerous videogames including Pong, Half-Life, and Star Wars Galaxies. Bogost draws on object technology and complex adaptive systems theory for his method of unit analysis, underscoring the configurative aspects of a wide variety of human processes. His extended analysis of freedom in large virtual spaces examines Grand Theft Auto 3, The Legend of Zelda, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, and Joyce's Ulysses. In Unit Operations, Bogost not only offers a new methodology for videogame criticism but argues for the possibility of real collaboration between the humanities and information technology.
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16 Jan 2018
TL;DR: In this article, Naga et al. discuss the impact of video games on the capacidades expresivas, interactivas, and comunicativas of usuarios, se les considera algo mas que una industria o artefacto para el entretenimiento.
Abstract: En el presente articulo se desarrolla un estado del arte de los estudios que han indagado por los video games, es decir, juegos digitales. Las preguntas de esta area giran en torno a las capacidades expresivas, interactivas y comunicativas de estos, se les considera algo mas que una industria o artefacto para el entretenimiento, cuyo impacto cultural se aproxima al del cine y el internet. Se encuentran estudios que se centran en el analisis de sus efectos negativos, jugabilidad y narracion, el video juego como herramienta ideologica, el contexto y la matriz cultural del autor, su potencial educativo, las representaciones sociales que, de estos, tienen los jugadores y no jugadores. Se requieren estudios que aborden la multiculturalidad e interculturalidad que se propician en estos dispositivos en los que convergen usuarios de diferentes procedencias, asi mismo perspectivas que les conecten con la cultura visual digital, la virtualidad y realidad aumentada, la tecno-cultura, el diseno y modelado visual en linea, el multijugador masivo, redes y comunidades socio-digitales. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33571/revistaluciernaga.v10n19a1
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...…o la televisión (Egenfeld, 2008), (Esnaola, 2006), (Kerr, 2006), (Poole, 2000), (Sellers, 2001) no arrojan suficiente información para establecer un entendimiento preciso sobre el propio video game (Aranda & Navarro, 2009), (Baena, 2002), (Bogost, 2006), (Herz, 1997), (Bistrain 1995), (King, 2002)....
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01 Jan 2014
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...These discourses are enacted through instances of what Bogost calls “procedural rhetoric” (2007). Procedural rhetoric is “a new type of persuasive and expressive practice” in which gameplay processes and platform affordances are used “persuasively” (2007, p....
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...In order to comprehend the cultural dynamics of gamble-play media, I use a similar approach to the one taken by Montfort and Bogost (2009) to study the Atari videogame platform:...
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TL;DR: It is argued that COTS game players’ attitudes towards learning may change in a positive direction even in cases where direct learning outcomes are not aimed for, and even if such a game do not fulfil the criteria for learning games it may still be seen as a learning stimulating game.
Abstract: Playing games to support learning is a classic concept that is seeing a revival today in the widespread use of computer games. Inserting educational content into various types of computer games is a strong trend that some researchers have described as a mad rush. The aim of this article is to discuss possible learning stimulating effects of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) games in a long-term perspective. We argue that COTS game players’ attitudes towards learning may change in a positive direction even in cases where direct learning outcomes are not aimed for. This may be the case when in-game skills are described in terms of real life skills commonly associated with higher education. When a high enough skill level is achieved, then and only then is the player rewarded with pleasant in-game experiences. The causality of the perceived experience is ideally that with high enough skills, positive stimulation follows. The contribution of the gaming lies not in the short-term learning outcome, but rather in the long-term effects it may have on future educational choices. Even if such a game do not fulfil the criteria for learning games it may still be seen as a learning stimulating game.
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...has been discussed and there is no clear consensus [25], [26]....
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TL;DR: In 2008, a British man found that his new iPhone contained photographs of a smiling woman on an iPhone assembly line in China, dubbed iPhone Girl, and her factory promised she would not be punished for this ‘beautiful mistake' as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: In 2008, a British man found that his new iPhone contained photographs of a smiling woman on an iPhone assembly line in China. The photos quickly spread across the internet; the worker was dubbed iPhone Girl; and her factory promised she would not be punished for this ‘beautiful mistake’. New media criticism has a major stake in user-embodiment but has largely neglected this other set of bodies: those that build our electronic gadgets. Attending them can enrich histories of new media and challenge consumerist framings of digital aesthetics. Recent excitement about gestural interfaces suggests that our aspirations for intimacy with computers have informed the design of emergent devices. To idealize gestural control as an escape from technology’s disciplinary effects, we elide the suffering that gesture occasions on the factory floor. Meanwhile, digital culture represents the Asian female as a vessel for fantasies of sex, submissiveness, and adventure. Such fantasies deeply inform the reception of electroni...
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...Other descriptions of feedback theorize technological development: ‘the logical structures of software design have begun to remap themselves back onto the material world they were invented to represent’ (Bogost, 2006: 40)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors bring together thinkers across nations and across disciplines to organize the question of time in the digital age, in particular the relationship between human beings and the virtual/digital world of knowledge databases and online video games.
Abstract: Time, the irrevocability of choice and commitment as well as the finality of death are central premises in modern moral and political thinking. This irreversibility is understood to reflect something about the organism, and something about the world. As culture comes to be mediated more and more by digital architectures in which time can be skipped, reversed, and begun again, it becomes important to revisit these premises. This paper seeks to bring together thinkers across nations and across disciplines to organize the question of time in the digital age. In particular the relationship between human beings and the virtual/digital world of knowledge databases and online video games.
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