Search Results for Social games

... This chapter focuses on modern games and the game-like order of things in the systems epoch. The chapter centers on form games, war games, and social games. It shows how games have a central place in modern social systems, what they look like, and how they work. Game theory is examined...

... This chapter focuses on modern games and the game-like order of things in the systems epoch. The chapter centers on form games, war games, and social games. It shows how games have a central place in modern social systems, what they look like, and how they work. Game theory is examined...

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... Social games Game Theory Anime Patricia Highsmith William Dean Howells Theodore Dreiser Thomas Demand ...

... is Kazuo Ishiguro’s recent novel about artful forms of life and death, secluded education, and ecologies of ignorance, in the systems epoch: Never Let Me Go . Ishiguro’s fiction is about art in the systems epoch in being about artificial life in the autonomy-enclaves of that epoch. Social games...

... feminist countersurveillance social network sites video games cyberharrassment ...

... Animal Crossing: New Horizons Hong Kong protest networked gaming social media ...

... and beyond the in-game villages. Looking at the protesters’ microscaled playful protest based on the game, this chapter also sees how they circulated the captured or recorded in-game protest scenes across social media and how that helped in their proliferation beyond the game’s simulated boundaries...

... and stigmatized groups are differentially targeted as objects of surveillance and harassment in social media and video game culture. Yet policing and penalizing harrassers through legal means tends to work poorly and fails to address underlying issues and motivations for the behavior. This essay describes how...

...Mobilizing Machines This roundtable opens part 5 of the collection, “Mobilizing Machines,” by exploring how Asia and America are separated in games through implicit political and historical narratives rooted in militarism, tech, and artistry. The roundtable designers discuss the social...

... racialization of the game’s father of socialism, and the psychedelic presence of the game’s cryptid. Although deeply flawed in its racial politics, Disco Elysium nevertheless presents a racialized dialectic that yearns for a liberatory, postcapitalist futurity to resolve its stark contradictions...

... This roundtable opens part 5 of the collection, “Mobilizing Machines,” by exploring how Asia and America are separated in games through implicit political and historical narratives rooted in militarism, tech, and artistry. The roundtable designers discuss the social and political impacts...

... adjacency appears throughout Disco Elysium through other means: the ambiguous racialization of the game’s father of socialism, and the psychedelic presence of the game’s cryptid. Although deeply flawed in its racial politics, Disco Elysium nevertheless presents a racialized dialectic that yearns...

... explores the cat-and-mouse game between street and embassy, situating it within the post–cold war conjuncture of ongoing crisis, of an eviscerated though still dictatorial state, of social death and the emptiness of citizenship under such conditions, of a sprawling transnational diaspora and the desires...

... This chapter discusses how quiz and game show formats, one of the most popular program types during socialism, were deployed as instruments for mass education. The argument zooms out to consider how quiz and game shows crystallized the logic of competition. Competition embraced and permeated...

... The paradox of the official world is that an indoor social life is at every moment oriented to the Great Outdoors. This chapter tracks the tactics of interaction—and noninteraction—that define a form of social life turned against itself. There is at once an “incrementalist turn” in recent...

... Chapter 6 considers how technology and internet culture built a foundation for Lil Nas X's success. The interplay of music and technology comes in two varieties: the medium and the marketing. As essential as technology is to the form music takes, the ways it promotes and socializes music...

... for a comparative historical sociology. The introduction argues that a necessarily fragmentary approach to social life, in which the intensive study of a fragment is used to gain a perspective on a larger whole, offers a greater potential for social science than the analysis of large data, undergirded by game...

... This chapter conceptualizes bareness in a contemporary context where the dialectic between seeing and being seen or unseen has defined social recognition. To analyze this new regime of civility, it looks at the recent European “veil wars.” How have the right to see and the privilege to disappear...