COMS 4412 Chapter Notes - Chapter n/a: Folklore, Barter, Darth Vader
21 Nov 2016
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There is a tension between the society of control, or algorithmic culture and counterplay: the emergent practices of digital game players. The configurative, modulating elements of digital game play is sometime taken to mean that the coded algorithms contain all potential meanings, allowing no space for critical reflections, or engagements with digital games. Once digital games are re-conceptualized as serious", a sub-industry emerges that explores, examines, and critique serious issues with and through digital games. A similar phenomenon has followed from the re-conceptualization of digital games as art. This does not imply that such projects are misguided, rather that their cultivation is a deliberate iteration of a training element that already exists in digital games. These activities describe the individual"s negotiations through a society characterized by a bureaucracy that is maintained and cultivated by information technology. The various means that produce the social are individually conceived as either intermediaries or mediators this distinction is crucial.
