Hedendaagse Mediacultuur

Werkgroep #4

Games and remediationLaura van der Vlies

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Game Studies (p. 139)• Old debate: Narratologists (narrative) versus

ludologists (play theory)• Play theory as an alternative to traditional

models from literary theory and the applied humanities

• Intellectual property/who owns the property created in games?Case: Dutch court imposes real-world punishment for virtual theft

Remediation [Bolter&Grusin]

The formal logic by which new media refashion prior media (p. 273)

What is new about new media comes from the particular ways in which they refashion older media and the ways in which older media refashion themselves to answer the challenges of new media (p. 15)

Borrowings – remediation – can occur in both directions.

Remediation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2syfeLn7Rs&feature=player_embedded

Remediation

Both new and old media are invoking the twin logics of immediacy and hypermediacy in their efforts to remake themselves and each other. (p. 5)

The outcome of the process of remediation, in their account, is a dialectical exchange between ‘immediacy’ and ‘hypermediacy.’

Immediacy

• Immediacy: “to erase all traces of mediation.”

Hypermediacy

• Hypermediacy is a "style of visual representation whose goal is to remind the viewer of the medium." (p. 272)

• Multiplying media (split screens).

Games veranderen

• Niet meer alleen console of pc

• Augmented reality

3D spatial memory game

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ks1u0A8xdU

Foursquare

Location based tagging game

Roku’s reward

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCCyfkGKL_w