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Medium as Message: Video Games

  • Jan. 11th, 2008 at 2:33 PM
kitchen
Marshall McLuhan once famously announced that 'the medium is the message.' By this he meant that when trying to figure out what media means, we are better served by studying how users interact with a given medium, rather than by evaluating content. I find that vdeo game play is a really interesting case study in medium as message. This post on the things kids master while playing Grand Theft Auto (from Barry Joseph at the Global Kids Initiative) helps explain why.

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[info]howief wrote:
Jan. 13th, 2008 02:12 am (UTC)
Have you looked into the socio-economics of Second Life. I find all of the possibilities of that place interesting. I don't think I'd venture in there as I'd probably be a homeless old man living in a park...

Howie