Technologies Between Games and Culture

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2409403
AutoresPatrick Crogan (University of the West of England, autor de correspondencia), Helen Kennedy (0000-0003-0273-3825), Helen W Kennedy (0000-0002-8833-1220, University of the West of England)
Año2009
Volumen4
Número2
Páginas107-114
Fecha de publicación2009-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGames and Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1555-4120 • E-ISSN: 1555-4139
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1555412008325482
OpenAlexW2109008363
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas6

This article introduces and situates the ensuing collection of four essays on the theme of games and technology. It argues the need for videogame studies to develop a more rigorous and focused perspective on the theorization of technology as it relates to research into games and culture. The ``and'' in games and culture cannot begin to be understood comprehensively without a thinking of the profound reliance of both terms on technology. Players and their cultural and collective involvements should be taken not as stable categories of research and development but as processes of becoming intertwined with lineages of technological development and disjunction which are the condition of these processes. Video games are not the least component and proponent of these technological lineages today. The essays collected in this section of the journal issue are described and characterized as offering such a focus on ludic technicity through their diverse but intersecting considerations of game hardware, software, game play, and other practices appropriating game technologies

Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Game design · Game Developer · Game mechanics · Game studies · Game theory · Media studies · Metagaming · Multimedia · Non-cooperative game · Perspective (graphical · Sociology · Theme (computing · Video game · Video game development · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Educational Games and Gamification