interacting with a work does not shape the work, it ‘only’ reveals it.
Terra Nova: Game Education: What Should You Study? - 7 views
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Fascinating. On the one hand, a lot of talk around liberal education. On the other, that classic theory/practice debate.
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Will gaming become older media's younger sibling, then?
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I don't really see that, myself, at least not from the production side, because computers and coding are such a prominent component. But it does seem like game studies is overlapping with existing media studies in many institutions. Perhaps we'll see a more demarcated split between studies and game design in a way we haven't seen with film and TV (not that film and TV aren't fairly demarcated at lots of schools; but they're still usually in the same department when they're both available).
A Father's Video Game About His Son's Terminal Cancer - The New Yorker - 1 views
Terra Nova: Movies Stink - 15 views
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Castranova is not usually so passionate in his writing. Very interesting perspective, though.
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Coming in Thursday, leaving Sunday @3.
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Cool -- I'll see you Friday morning then. Let's try to grab a meal at some point. :)
On Authorship in Games - Click Nothing - 5 views
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Because a game is a complete formal system
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Is he implicitly arguing here that games with emergent elements -- especially MMO's and games with heavy player-vs-player interactions -- are not games, or is he arguing that they also represent "complete formal system(s)"? Or did he simply misspeak? Because I don't see emergence as falling within any kind of closed system.
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I take him to be talking about elements that belong to the game proper, not to things that might emerge within and through the game as a result of player interactions. So in-game actions are part of the game. Forums for player discussion, clans etc are not part of the game, at least not part of the authored game. But I agree, it's very ambiguous and should be debated.
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The rebuttal to this argument lies in a comparison to film or to music or to any other collaborative artistic creation.
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Woops -- I thought he was going to address my points above, but he went in a different direction here. (I'm enjoying the point-by-point-rebuttal structure of the post immensely, though. I'd love more of my students to write this way. :)
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I agree. The noise point is quite good. And careful comparisons with other media are useful.
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Scott Pilgrim is an epic for the Nintendo generation - 3 views
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Indeed. Fascinating to see the negative press, too.
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I liked the NPR review of the reviewers: http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2010/08/12/129150813/-scott-pilgrim-versus-the-unfortunate-tendency-to-review-the-audience It is good to be reminded once in awhile that gaming is still considered "lowbrow" and only for 12 year old boys to the uninformed. God knows I love me some elitism, but only when it is justified.
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Yes, the disdain for gaming is still powerful. This movie is getting good reviews, generally. But is it doing badly at the box office?
M/C Journal: "Artificial Intelligence" - 0 views
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Within twenty-four hours of the sensationalistic news breaking, however, a group of Battlefield 2 fans was crowing about the idiocy of reporters. The game play footage wasn’t from a high-tech modification of the software by Islamic extremists; it had been posted on a Planet Battlefield forum the previous December of 2005 by a game fan who had cut together regular game play with a Bush remix and a parody snippet of the soundtrack from the 2004 hit comedy film Team America. The voice describing the Black Hawk helicopters was the voice of Trey Parker of South Park cartoon fame, and – much to Parker’s amusement – even the mention of “goats screaming” did not clue spectators in to the fact of a comic source.
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The man behind the “SonicJihad” pseudonym turned out to be a twenty-five-year-old hospital administrator named Samir, and what reporters and representatives saw was nothing more exotic than game play from an add-on expansion pack of Battlefield 2, which – like other versions of the game – allows first-person shooter play from the position of the opponent as a standard feature. While SonicJihad initially joined his fellow gamers in ridiculing the mainstream media, he also expressed astonishment and outrage about a larger politics of reception. In one interview he argued that the media illiteracy of Reuters potentially enabled a whole series of category errors, in which harmless gamers could be demonised as terrorists.
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a self-identified “parody” video was shown to the august House Intelligence Committee by a team of well-paid “experts” from the Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a major contractor with the federal government, as key evidence of terrorist recruitment techniques and abuse of digital networks. Moreover, this story of media illiteracy unfolded in the context of a fundamental Constitutional debate about domestic surveillance via communications technology and the further regulation of digital content by lawmakers. Furthermore, the transcripts of the actual hearing showed that much more than simple gullibility or technological ignorance was in play.
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