game pleasures and media practices

One more time something on the workshop ↑Understanding media practices at the ↑9th EASA Biennial Conference. Very interesting to me is ↑Elisenda Ardevol‘s paper on “Game pleasures and media practices”, as it’s very close to my project:  This paper will explore the concept of media practice related to the social uses of the new technologies of information and communication in everyday life, focusing on a specific cultural form such as videogames. Videogames can be seen as an intersection of two different logics: narrative representation, characteristic of the audiovisual culture, and the pleasure of play, characteristic of the game culture. Playing … Continue reading

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understanding media practices

The workshop ↑Understanding media practices at the ↑9th EASA Biennial Conference is complete and all abstracts of the papers to be presented are online—very worthwhile for everyone interested in media anthropology or even cyberanthropology. Here is the workshop’s long abstract:  In recent years, anthropologists have taken a great interest in the study of media. A plethora of ethnographic studies, three media anthropology readers, one historical survey of this research area and the EASA Media Anthropology Network are some examples of this growing interest. Although this area of research is marked by a high degree of theoretical and empirical diversity, most … Continue reading

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