Identity
Across all ages, 80% of players are over this age.
What is 18 years old?
Takes the form of a thousand different, often deadly, materials for each computer.
What is e-waste?
Initially tried to by Twitch for $1 Billion.
A word that describes technological, industrial, cultural, and social changes. In the ways media circulates within our culture.
What is convergence?
The technology that "highlights the existence of your subjective experience. It proves you are real."
What is virtual reality?
Largest ethnicity group in the video game player community.
What is white?
Region that has historically been produced most e-waste.
What is the Global North?
Productive of a certain kinds of social relations, certain ways of living, certain subjectivites. NOT pure and simple rehabilitation of laissez-faire.
What is Neo-liberalism?
A shift in the logic by which culture operates, emphasizing the flow of content across media channels.
What is cultural convergence?
An enhanced version of the physical, real-world reality of which elements are superimposed by CG or extracted real-world sensory input.
What is augmented reality?
Age. Class. Gender. Race. Sexuality.
What are dimensions of disparity?
Region where most e-waste is dumped.
What is the Global South?
Traditional. Social Networking. Gig economy.
What are neo-liberal enterprises?
According to Neil Young, the expansion of interpretive possibility that occurs when fictional franchises are extended across multiple texts and media.
What is additive comprehension?
An interactive narrative that uses the real world as a platform, often involving multiple media and game elements, to tell a story that may be affected by participants’ ideas or actions.
What are alternative reality games?
The dimension of disparity that had the strongest correlation between identifying as a gamer or not.
What is gender?
A critique of (political, economic, and cultural) citizenship, often bound by territory AND a corrective that looks to save infrastructure, ecosystems and heritage from capitalist growth.
What is Green Citizenship?
Originally designed as prison architecture.
What is the panopticon?
The economic opportunities that emerge in a context of horizontal integration where one media conglomerate holds interests in multiple channels of distribution.
What is synergy?
A time-based representation of character and action in which a reader can affect, choose, or change the plot.
What are interactive narratives?
Company whose VP of brand said that the term "gamer" is outdated and basically useless.
What is EA?
Green Citizenship pushes for the right to...
What is biophysical health?
Gaming that resists the established logics of video games.
What is counter gaming?
Stories that unfold across multiple media platforms, with each medium making distinctive contributions to our understanding of the world, a more integrated approach to franchise development than models based on urtexts and ancillary products.
What is transmedia storytelling?
Emphases on simultaneous multiple storylines, co-creative relationships and non-liner narrative structures.
What are interactive documentaries?