Computer Games and New Media Cultures

Release on 2012-06-14 | by Johannes Fromme

This handbook aims to reflect the relevance and value of studying digital games, now the subject of a growing number of studies, surveys, conferences and publications.

Computer Games and New Media Cultures
  • Author: Johannes Fromme
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 9789400727779
  • Category: Education
  • Page: 712
  • View: 870

Digital gaming is today a significant economic phenomenon as well as being an intrinsic part of a convergent media culture in postmodern societies. Its ubiquity, as well as the sheer volume of hours young people spend gaming, should make it ripe for urgent academic enquiry, yet the subject was a research backwater until the turn of the millennium. Even today, as tens of millions of young people spend their waking hours manipulating avatars and gaming characters on computer screens, the subject is still treated with scepticism in some academic circles. This handbook aims to reflect the relevance and value of studying digital games, now the subject of a growing number of studies, surveys, conferences and publications. As an overview of the current state of research into digital gaming, the 42 papers included in this handbook focus on the social and cultural relevance of gaming. In doing so, they provide an alternative perspective to one-dimensional studies of gaming, whose agendas do not include cultural factors. The contributions, which range from theoretical approaches to empirical studies, cover various topics including analyses of games themselves, the player-game interaction, and the social context of gaming. In addition, the educational aspects of games and gaming are treated in a discrete section. With material on non-commercial gaming trends such as ‘modding’, and a multinational group of authors from eleven nations, the handbook is a vital publication demonstrating that new media cultures are far more complex and diverse than commonly assumed in a debate dominated by concerns over violent content.

Game Cultures Computer Games As New Media

Release on 2006-05-01 | by Dovey, Jon

This book introduces the critical concepts and debates that are shaping the emerging field of game studies.

Game Cultures Computer Games As New Media
  • Author: Dovey, Jon
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
  • ISBN: 9780335213573
  • Category: Social Science
  • Page: 171
  • View: 802

This book introduces the critical concepts and debates that are shaping the emerging field of game studies. Exploring games in the context of cultural studies and media studies, it analyses computer games as the most popular contemporary form of new media production and consumption. This is key reading for students, academics and industry practitioners in the fields of cultural studies, new media, media studies and game studies, as well as human-computer interaction and cyberculture.

Watch Me Play

Release on 2018-10-16 | by T.L. Taylor

Forbes, February 22. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristidosh/2016/02/22/the-
evolution-of-marketing-to -female-sports-fans/#2b4155bf7fc3. Dovey, Jon, and
Helen Kennedy. 2006. Game Cultures: Computer Games as New Media. New
York: ...

Watch Me Play
  • Author: T.L. Taylor
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • ISBN: 9780691183558
  • Category: Social Science
  • Page: 328
  • View: 354

A look at the revolution in game live streaming and esports broadcasting Every day thousands of people broadcast their gaming live to audiences over the internet using popular sites such as Twitch, which reaches more than one hundred million viewers a month. In these new platforms for interactive entertainment, big esports events featuring digital game competitors live stream globally, and audiences can interact with broadcasters—and each other—through chat in real time. What are the ramifications of this exploding online industry? Taking readers inside home studios and backstage at large esports events, Watch Me Play investigates the rise of game live streaming and how it is poised to alter how we understand media and audiences. Through extensive interviews and immersion in this gaming scene, T. L. Taylor delves into the inner workings of the live streaming platform Twitch. From branding to business practices, she shows the pleasures and work involved in this broadcasting activity, as well as the management and governance of game live streaming and its hosting communities. At a time when gaming is being reinvented through social media, the potential of an ever-growing audience is transforming user-generated content and alternative distribution methods. These changes will challenge the meaning of ownership and intellectual property and open the way to new forms of creativity. The first book to explore the online phenomenon Twitch and live streaming games, Watch Me Play offers a vibrant look at the melding of private play and public entertainment.

Games and Gaming

Release on 2011-01-01 | by Larissa Hjorth

Presenting a range of approaches and analytical tools through which to explore the role of games in everyday life, and packed with case material, Games and Gaming provides a comprehensive overview of this new media and how it permeates ...

Games and Gaming
  • Author: Larissa Hjorth
  • Publisher: Berg
  • ISBN: 9781847888389
  • Category: Games & Activities
  • Page: 192
  • View: 538

The computer games industry has rapidly matured. Once a preoccupation only of young technophiles, games are now one of the dominant forms of global popular culture. From consoles such as Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox to platforms such as iPhones and online gaming worlds, the realm of games and their scope has become all-pervasive. The study of games is no longer a niche interest but rather an integral part of cultural and media studies. The analysis of games reveals much about contemporary social relations, online communities and media engagement. Presenting a range of approaches and analytical tools through which to explore the role of games in everyday life, and packed with case material, Games and Gaming provides a comprehensive overview of this new media and how it permeates global culture in the twenty-first century.

New Media

Release on 2009 | by Martin Lister

With this text, a team of authors from the University of West England provide a comprehensive overview of the culture, technologies and history of new media and assess claims that a media and technology revolution is underway.

New Media
  • Author: Martin Lister
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 9780415431606
  • Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Page: 446
  • View: 545

With this text, a team of authors from the University of West England provide a comprehensive overview of the culture, technologies and history of new media and assess claims that a media and technology revolution is underway.

Children s Games in the New Media Age

Release on 2014-03-28 | by Dr Chris Richards

The result of a unique research project exploring the relationship between children's vernacular play cultures and their media-based play, this collection challenges two popular misconceptions about children's play: that it is depleted or ...

Children s Games in the New Media Age
  • Author: Dr Chris Richards
  • Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • ISBN: 9781472401465
  • Category: History
  • Page: 238
  • View: 609

The result of a unique research project exploring the relationship between children's vernacular play cultures and their media-based play, this collection challenges two popular misconceptions about children's play: that it is depleted or even dying out and that it is threatened by contemporary media such as television and computer games. A key element in the research was the digitization and analysis of Iona and Peter Opie's sound recordings of children's playground and street games from the 1970s and 1980s. This framed and enabled the research team's studies both of the Opies' documents of mid-twentieth-century play culture and, through a two-year ethnographic study of play and games in two primary school playgrounds, contemporary children's play cultures. In addition the research included the use of a prototype computer game to capture playground games and the making of a documentary film. Drawing on this extraordinary data set, the volume poses three questions: What do these hitherto unseen sources reveal about the games, songs and rhymes the Opies and others collected in the mid-twentieth century? What has happened to these vernacular forms? How are the forms of vernacular play that are transmitted in playgrounds, homes and streets transfigured in the new media age? In addressing these questions, the contributors reflect on the changing face of childhood in the twenty-first century - in relation to questions of gender and power and with attention to the children's own participation in producing the ethnographic record of their lives.

The New Media Book

Release on 2002-10-27 | by Dan Harries

3 no . 5 , 2000 , < www . media - culture . org . au / 0010 / game . html > . 14 .
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The New Media Book
  • Author: Dan Harries
  • Publisher: British Film Institute
  • ISBN: 0851709257
  • Category: Performing Arts
  • Page: 272
  • View: 196

What will prove to be the lasting impact of New Media on film and television? What kinds of transformations of moving image media are really already under way? The term 'new media' has become an effective catch word both as a description of the digital delivery of media via the Internet, DVD, and digital television and as a reference to the "newness" such technologies have brought to media more generally. And yet the nature of this transformation has been over-hyped and too little understood. The New Media Book provides an accessible, critical intervention into the field of moving image studies and features 20 newly commissioned and thought-provoking essays in a format designed to be of wide use to a range of courses in digital media, film and television studies. The book is divided into five thematic sections: Technologies, Production, Texts, Consumption, and Contexts and addresses how "new media" is both embracing and altering the existing media landscape. Topics discussed include the ways in which we interact with digital television, the changing methods of production, distribution, and exhibition within the media industry, and how the histories of traditional media have influenced the development of new media. The New Media Book examines the corresponding influences that 'traditional' media and 'new' media are having upon each other as well as revisiting central, continuing issues surrounding the moving image and the contexts in which all the media operate. The collected essays present and redefine these crucially important topics providing the most systematic analysis of both change and continuity in the contemporary media landscape yet published in the field of screen studies.

Derivative Rights Moral Rights and Movie Filtering Technology

Release on 2004 | by United States

The Laboratory offers education on hypermedia and interactive and digital media
that are closely related to it , and conducts ... He is the editor of Computer Games
and Digital Cultures , proceedings of a conference in 2002 organized by the ...

Derivative Rights Moral Rights and Movie Filtering Technology
  • Author: United States
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: LOC:00133756826
  • Category: Children and violence
  • Page: 103
  • View: 800

Computer Games and the Social Imaginary

Release on 2013-10-07 | by Graeme Kirkpatrick

Analysing topics such as technology and power, the formation of gaming culture and the subjective impact of play with computer games, this text will be of great interest to students and scholars of digital media, games studies and the ...

Computer Games and the Social Imaginary
  • Author: Graeme Kirkpatrick
  • Publisher: Polity
  • ISBN: 9780745641119
  • Category: Games & Activities
  • Page: 219
  • View: 817

Computer games have fundamentally altered the relation of self and society in the digital age. Analysing topics such as technology and power, the formation of gaming culture and the subjective impact of play with computer games, this text will be of great interest to students and scholars of digital media, games studies and the information society.

Theories of the New Media

Release on 2000 | by John Thornton Caldwell

16 . Nintendo made bigger profits last year than Sony , Microsoft , and Apple
Computers : see Sheff , “ Game Wars . " 17 . Ibid . 18 . Haddon , “ Interactive
Games , " p . 144 . 19 . For a discussion of young girls ' bedroom cultures , see
Angela ...

Theories of the New Media
  • Author: John Thornton Caldwell
  • Publisher: Burns & Oates
  • ISBN: 0485300915
  • Category: Mass media
  • Page: 331
  • View: 393

Presenting an analysis of the cultural impact of new technologies, this text anchors contemporary dicusssions of the digital future within a firm critical tradition of the media-arts, society and culture.

Empowerment Through Media Education

Release on 2008 | by Ulla Carlsson

In the span of a single decade new media like the Internet and mobile telephones
have revolutionized media cultures around the world . ... Another new feature of
the media culture is computer games ( Media Morphoses 2001 , 2008 ) .

Empowerment Through Media Education
  • Author: Ulla Carlsson
  • Publisher: Nordiskt Informationscenter for
  • ISBN: STANFORD:36105131952116
  • Category: Social Science
  • Page: 272
  • View: 911

The NewMediaReader

Release on 2003 | by Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of California Santa Cruz Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Associate Professor of Digital Media Nick Montfort Associate Professor in the
Computer Science Department at the University of California Santa Cruz ...
computer multimedia, computer games, CD-ROMs and DVDs, virtual reality, and
computer-generated special effects all fall under new media. Other cultural
objects which use computing for production and storage but not for final
distribution — television ...

The NewMediaReader
  • Author: Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of California Santa Cruz Noah Wardrip-Fruin
  • Publisher: MIT Press
  • ISBN: 0262232278
  • Category: Social Science
  • Page: 823
  • View: 132

A sourcebook of historical written texts, video documentation, and working programs that form the foundation of new media. This reader collects the texts, videos, and computer programs--many of them now almost impossible to find--that chronicle the history and form the foundation of the still-emerging field of new media. General introductions by Janet Murray and Lev Manovich, along with short introductions to each of the texts, place the works in their historical context and explain their significance. The texts were originally published between World War II--when digital computing, cybernetic feedback, and early notions of hypertext and the Internet first appeared--and the emergence of the World Wide Web--when they entered the mainstream of public life. The texts are by computer scientists, artists, architects, literary writers, interface designers, cultural critics, and individuals working across disciplines. The contributors include (chronologically) Jorge Luis Borges, Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, Ivan Sutherland, William S. Burroughs, Ted Nelson, Italo Calvino, Marshall McLuhan, Jean Baudrillard, Nicholas Negroponte, Alan Kay, Bill Viola, Sherry Turkle, Richard Stallman, Brenda Laurel, Langdon Winner, Robert Coover, and Tim Berners-Lee. The CD accompanying the book contains examples of early games, digital art, independent literary efforts, software created at universities, and home-computer commercial software. Also on the CD is digitized video, documenting new media programs and artwork for which no operational version exists. One example is a video record of Douglas Engelbart's first presentation of the mouse, word processor, hyperlink, computer-supported cooperative work, video conferencing, and the dividing up of the screen we now call non-overlapping windows; another is documentation of Lynn Hershman's Lorna, the first interactive video art installation.

Ensuring a Quality Media Culture for Children in the Digital Age

Release on 1999 | by Gary O. Larson Larson (Gary O.)

Are media Landscape that ery systems ( broadcast , print publicathere “ new
concepts and new parawill be far different tions , fax , and e ... grasp the
combined , as computer - mediated comfrom the current one . dimensions of the
new - media universe munications gradually ... Dolls , toys , and the old media ,
they will combine existing technologies in games will all be invested with
computing power , and ...

Ensuring a Quality Media Culture for Children in the Digital Age
  • Author: Gary O. Larson Larson (Gary O.)
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: PSU:000043767540
  • Category: Children's mass media
  • Page: 30
  • View: 325

Popular Culture New Media and Digital Literacy in Early Childhood

Release on 2005 | by Jackie Marsh

This book offers a range of perspectives on children's multimodal experiences, providing a ground-breaking account of the ways in which children engage with popular culture, media and digital literacy practices from their earliest years.

Popular Culture New Media and Digital Literacy in Early Childhood
  • Author: Jackie Marsh
  • Publisher: Psychology Press
  • ISBN: 0415335736
  • Category: Education
  • Page: 245
  • View: 181

This book offers a range of perspectives on children's multimodal experiences, providing a ground-breaking account of the ways in which children engage with popular culture, media and digital literacy practices from their earliest years. Many young children have extensive experience of film, television, printed media, computer games, mobile phones and the Internet from birth, yet their reaction to media texts is rarely acknowledged in the national curricula of any country. This seminal text focuses on children from birth to eight years, addressing issues such as: * media and identity construction * media literacy practices in the home * the changing nature of literacy in technologically advanced societies * The place of popular and media texts in children's lives and the use of such texts in the curriculum. By exploring children's engagement with popular culture, media and digital texts in the home, community and early years settings, the contributors look at empirical studies from around the world, and draw out vital new theoretical issues relating to children's emergent techno-literacy practices. With an unmatchable team of international experts evaluating topics from text-messaging to the Teletubbies, this book is a long-overdue, fascinating and illuminating read for policy-makers, educational researchers and practitioners, and crosses over to appeal to those in the linguistics field.

Digital Creativity

Release on 2002 | by Colin Beardon

The article discusses computer and video games in the context of the cultural
history of the moving image . The focus is on one ... In this way , they light the way
towards understanding new media from an aesthetic perspective . Computer and
 ...

Digital Creativity
  • Author: Colin Beardon
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 9026519397
  • Category: Technology & Engineering
  • Page: 249
  • View: 412

Presenting highlights from five years of the field journal Digital Creativity , this volume republishes twenty-seven contributions from international artists and scientists.

Media International Australia

Release on 2004 | by

Many ' digital immigrants ' have little familiarity with some key distinctions in
computer games . For example , different games platforms support subtly different
cultural forms . Arcade games must be quick to learn , and deliver players ...

Media International Australia
  • Author:
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: UIUC:30112074170991
  • Category: Australia
  • Page:
  • View: 799

Play Creativity and Digital Cultures

Release on 2012-08-21 | by Rebekah Willett

She taught English and media studies to secondary school students in South
East London for 6 years and has guest lectured on Hindi Film, taught on ...
Recent and current research projects include studies of the use of computer
games as text ...

Play Creativity and Digital Cultures
  • Author: Rebekah Willett
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 9781135894474
  • Category: Education
  • Page: 254
  • View: 397

Recent work on children's digital cultures has identified a range of literacies emerging through children's engagement with new media technologies. This edited collection focuses on children's digital cultures, specifically examining the role of play and creativity in learning with these new technologies. The chapters in this book were contributed by an international range of respected researchers, who seek to extend our understandings of children's interactions with new media, both within and outside of school. They address and provide evidence for continuing debates around the following questions: What notions of creativity are useful in our fields? How does an understanding of play inform analysis of children's engagement with digital cultures? How might school practice take account of out-of-school learning in relation to digital cultures? How can we understand children's engagements with digital technologies in commercialized spaces? Offering current research, theoretical debate and empirical studies, this intriguing text will challenge the thinking of scholars and teachers alike as it explores the evolving nature of play within the media landscape of the twenty-first century.

Handbook of New Media

Release on 2006-01-17 | by Leah A Lievrouw

This chapter focuses on children's uses of new media (particularly computers) in
the context of leisure time, in the home ... upon computer games and 'online
culture'; and a consideration of the 'educational' uses of new media by parents
and ...

Handbook of New Media
  • Author: Leah A Lievrouw
  • Publisher: SAGE
  • ISBN: 1412918731
  • Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Page: 475
  • View: 729

Thoroughly revised and updated, this Student Edition of the successful Handbook of New Media has been abridged to showcase the best of the hardback edition. This Handbook sets out boundaries of new media research and scholarship and provides a definitive statement of the current state-of-the-art of the field. Covering major problem areas of research, the Handbook of New Media includes an introductory essay by the editors and a concluding essay by Ron Rice. Each chapter, written by an internationally renowned scholar, provides a review of the most significant social research findings and insights.

The Cult Film Reader

Release on 2008 | by Ernest Mathijs

He is the author of British Low Culture : From Safari Suits to Sexploitation ( 1998 )
and Kung Fu Cult Masters : From Bruce Lee to ... Henry Jenkins is Professor of
Literature and Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program ,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology . ... Computer Games ( 1998 ) , Hop on
Pop : the Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture ( 2003 ) , Democracy and
New Media ( 2003 ) ...

The Cult Film Reader
  • Author: Ernest Mathijs
  • Publisher: Open University Press
  • ISBN: STANFORD:36105131717972
  • Category: Performing Arts
  • Page: 549
  • View: 485

"A really impressive and comprehensive collection of the key writings in the field. The editors have done a terrific job in drawing together the various traditions and providing a clear sense of this rich and rewarding scholarly terrain. This collection is as wild and diverse as the films that it covers. Fascinating." .Mark Jancovich, Professor of Film and Television Studies, University of East Anglia, UK .."It's about time the lunatic fans and loyal theorists of cult movies were treated to a book they can call their own. The effort and knowledge contained in The Cult Film Reader will satisfy even the most ravenous zombie's desire for detail and insight. This book will gnaw, scratch and infect you just like the cult films themselves." .Brett Sullivan, Director of Ginger Snaps Unleashed and The Chair .."The Cult Film Reader is a great film text book and a fun read." .John Landis, Director of The Blues Brothers, An American Werewolf in London and Michael Jackson's Thriller ..Whether defined by horror, kung-fu, sci-fi, sexploitation, kitsch musical or �weird world cinema�, cult movies and their global followings are emerging as a distinct subject of film and media theory, dedicated to dissecting the world�s unruliest images. ..This book is the world�s first reader on cult film. It brings together key works in the field on the structure, form, status, and reception of cult cinema traditions. Including work from key established scholars in the field such as Umberto Eco, Janet Staiger, Jeffrey Sconce, Henry Jenkins, and Barry Keith Grant, as well as new perspectives on the gradually developing canon of cult cinema, the book not only presents an overview of ways in which cult cinema can be approached, it also re-assesses the methods used to study the cult text and its audiences. ..With editors� introductions to the volume and to each section, the book is divided into four clear thematic areas of study � The Conceptions of Cu..Written in a lively and accessible style, The Cult Film Reader dissects some of biggest trends, icons, auteurs and periods of global cult film production. Films discussed include Casablanca, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Eraserhead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Showgirls and Ginger Snaps. ..Essays by: Jinsoo An; Jane Arthurs; Bruce Austin; Martin Barker; Walter Benjamin; Harry Benshoff; Pierre Bourdieu; Noel Carroll; Steve Chibnall; Umberto Eco; Nezih Erdogan; Welch Everman; John Fiske; Barry Keith Grant ; Joan Hawkins; Gary Hentzi; Matt Hills; Ramaswami Harindranath; J.Hoberman; Leon Hunt; I.Q. Hunter; Mark Jancovich; Henry Jenkins; Anne Jerslev; Siegfried Kracauer; Gina Marchetti; Tom Mes; Gary Needham; Sheila J. Nayar; Annalee Newitz; Lawrence O�Toole; Harry Allan Potamkin; Jonathan Rosenbaum; Andrew Ross; David Sanjek; Eric Schaefer; Steven Jay Schneider; Jeffrey Sconce; Janet Staiger; J.P. Telotte; Parker Tyler; Jean Vigo; Harmony Wu.

Domestic Cultures

Release on 2008-03 | by Joanne Hollows

... Critical Readings : Violence and the Media Edited by C . Kay Weaver and
Cynthia Carter Mediatized Conflict Simon Cottle Games Cultures : Computer
Games as New Media Jon Dovey and Helen Kennedy Perspectives on Global
Cultures ...

Domestic Cultures
  • Author: Joanne Hollows
  • Publisher: Open University Press
  • ISBN: STANFORD:36105131621141
  • Category: Performing Arts
  • Page: 167
  • View: 360

"This is an extremely useful text for undergraduate students studying domestic cultures as a cultural, social or historical phenomenon. It is well organised and easy to follow, and can be dipped into with ease." Popular Narrative Media Although ‘home’ is central to most people’s experience of everyday life, the meaning of home is often taken for granted. In this accessible and student-friendly introduction to domestic cultures, Joanne Hollows surveys current thinking and approaches to demonstrate why home is so central to our lives. Domestic Cultures examines which meanings and values have been associated with home and demonstrates how these have been transformed and reworked in different historical contexts. The book shows that while certain meanings of domestic culture are frequently produced ‘for us’, these can be negotiated and resisted through everyday home-making practices. She demonstrates how elements of domesticity have been dislocated and mobilized within public life. This wide-ranging text challenges a range of ideas about domestic culture. It examines how the meanings of domestic life are produced across a range of discourses and practices, from architecture, lifestyle media and advertising to home decoration, cooking and watching television. The book demonstrates how domestic cultures are not only linked to particular ideas about gendered identities, but how they are also differentiated by class, race and sexuality. Domestic Cultures is a key introductory text for media, sociology and cultural studies students.