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Gaming Culture• ‘Gaming studies’ emerging field• Ludology vs. Narratology debate• Game as just another ‘text’ (Bolterand Grusin)• Games as games, with own rules,etc. (Aarseth)– http://gamestudies.org– “Allegorithm” (Galloway 2006: 91-92): Control allegory– Not the particular content, but thealgorithmic logic of computergames– Example: Civilization dubiousethnocentric representations, moreproblematic is the way it reduceseverything to quantifiable bits ofinformation– Players internalise the ‘rules’ of theprogram
Gaming Culture• Everyday life as a game?• http://www.futureofthebook.org/gamertheory/• “The game has colonized itsrivals within the cultural realm,from the spectacle of cinema tothe simulations of television.Stories no longer opiate us withimaginary reconciliations of realproblems. […] Sure, reality TVdoesn’t look like reality, butneither does reality. Bothbecome a seamless space inwhich gamers test their abilitieswithin contrived scenarios”(Wark 2007, §7)
Page 2 and 3: What is a computer network?• Phys
Page 5 and 6: Local Network connectingonto global
Page 7 and 8: TCP/IP: higher-level protocols• C
Page 9 and 10: Internet in the 70s - 80s• Contin
Page 11 and 12: • ARPANET ended in1990• Tim Ber
Page 13 and 14: “Memex”Vannevar Bush introduced
Page 15 and 16: World Wide Web• Server/Host- Runs
Page 17 and 18: • Composed ofnested “elements
Page 19 and 20: “Browser Wars”• Netscape was
Page 21 and 22: 2000 - Present• The World Wide We
Page 23 and 24: Blogs?- Only for losers…?- Differ
Page 25 and 26: DIY Culture• Traditional forms -
Page 27: • Fordmods.com• DIY media/cultu

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