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15 Nov 09

Game Studies 0102: Cultural framing of computer/video games. By Kurt Squire

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Since their inception, computer and video games have both
fascinated and caused great fear in the politicians, educators, academics,
and the public at large. In the United States, this fear and fascination
goes back to the early 1980s, when Ronald Reagan extolled the virtues
of games to create a generation of highly skilled cold war warriors, while
U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop proclaimed games among the top health
risks facing Americans. To be sure, such extreme cultural reactions to
technological and cultural innovations are hardly new; mid twentieth-century
critics feared that television watchers would become addicted to television,
never leaving their homes, and critics before them feared that film would
pervert viewers.

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Where have all the games gone? Explorations on the cultural significance of digital games and preservation

Barwick Joanna, Muir Adrienne, Dearnley James

September
2009
Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory

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It is now 50 years since the development of the first computer game but despite the proliferation of digital games in our society - with an industry which is flourishing and an average of 9 games sold every second of every day in 2007, it seems that these products are not as valued as the products of other cultural industries, such as film and television, and they are being excluded from the preservation of our digital heritage.
This paper will focus on research interviews undertaken with people in the academic community. It will highlight that the growing academic interest in digital games is being hindered by a lack of research collections to support historical study. Researchers acknowledge that the study of digital games is a relatively new discipline and that outside academia, there is still little understanding of their cultural significance. However, they recognise the importance of protecting games as part of our digital heritage to ensure that future generations are able to understand the development of a valuable aspect of our social history. In other words, this research has underlined that games are considered a culture worth studying and something in need of preserving.

Keywords: Digital games, preservation, cultural heritage, academics
DATAPLAY: Mapping Game Mechanics to Traditional Data Visualization

Macklin Colleen, Wargaski Julia, Edwards Michael, Li Kan Yang

September
2009
Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory

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- Exploring Game Aesthetics
  
  Sommerseth Hanna
  
  September
  2009
  Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory
  
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  This paper explores an approach to understanding player
  experience and immersion through aesthetic theory. It
  should be noted that the paper limits itself to a
  consideration of singleplayer,
  avatarbased
  games with a
  narrative element.
  This paper will argue that the experience of immersion is
  intrinsically tied in with the body and its spatiotemporal
  positioning within a fictional or constructed space. Seeing
  immersion from the point of view of the body makes it
  possible to see a dichotomous relationship between textbased
  and audiovisual media. When a reader is immersed in
  fiction, the 'transportation' from one space to another is
  purely cognitive the
  readers body is still and the
  construction of the fictional world takes place in the readers
  mind. For a player of games to experience immersion,
  various technologies exist that act directly upon the player's
  perceptive systems in order to create an experience.
  
  Keywords: aesthetics, body, senses, immersion

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- Adolescents who play more than one hour of console or Internet video games have more or more intense symptoms of ADHD or inattention than those who do not (Chan, 2006).
- The most likely reasons that people play video games excessively are due to either ineffective time management skills, or as a symptomatic response to other underlying problems that they are escaping from, rather than any inherent addictive properties of the actual games (Wood, 2008).