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Just Add Performance - Kiri Miller / Brown University | - 0 views

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shared by Benjamin Jörissen on 02 Sep 09 - Cached
  • My standard strategy for explaining my research to those caught up in the effects debate is to point out that playing these games isn’t just like playing real instruments, but it’s nothing at all like just listening to music. It’s a third thing, a new way of musicking.
  • everyone I’ve interviewed for my research reports that the games have substantially changed the way they listen to popular music when they’re not playing
  • I want to suggest that the most important value-added aspect is the potential for performance
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  • you reconstitute instant soup by adding water, and you reconstitute a recorded song by adding performance
  • value-reconstituted
  • Players become live performers of pre-recorded songs, a phenomenon that I call schizophonic performance.
  • But players aren’t deluded; they’re quick to point out that they understand the difference between playing instruments and playing Guitar Hero.
    • Benjamin Jörissen
      Benjamin Jörissen on 02 Sep 09
       
      Because they have their bodies involved into musical experience.
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ENISA Position Paper "Security and Privacy in Virtual Worlds and Gaming" - 0 views

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shared by Benjamin Jörissen on 05 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Benjamin Jörissen on 05 Nov 08
     
    Malicious programs that specifically target online games and virtual worlds aimed at stealing online game passwords are becoming a serious problem. Such malware is invariably aimed at the theft of virtual property accumulated in a user's account and its sale for real money. The failure to recognise the importance of protecting the real-money value locked up in this grey-zone of the economy is leading to an exponential increase in attacks targeting online MMO/VWs. The main body of this report describes in detail these risks and others, including privacy risks in MMO's, in-game access-control vulnerabilities, scripting vulnerabilities, denial of service, spam and threats to minors, before making a number of recommendations on how to remedy them. To provide evidence for the report, we conducted a survey of 1500 users of MMO/VWs. The complete results can be viewed at the following link: pdf http://www.enisa.europa.eu/doc/pdf/other/survey_vw.pdf
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