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Download or read book Digital Legend and Belief written by Andrew Peck and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internet brings new urgency to the study of folklore. The digital networks we use every day amplify the capacity of legends to spread swiftly, define threats, and inform action. Using the case of a particularly popular digital bogeyman known as the Slender Man, Andrew Peck brings the study of legends into the twenty-first century. Peck explains not only how legends circulate in the digital swirl of the internet but also how the internet affects how legends seep into our offline lives and into the mass media we consume. What happens, he asks, when legends go online? How does the internet enable the creation of new legends? How do these ideas go viral? How do tradition and technology interact to construct collaborative beliefs? Peck argues that the story of the Slender Man is really a story about the changing nature of belief in the age of the internet. Widely adopted digital technologies, from smartphones to social media, offer vast potential for extending traditional and expressive social behaviors in new ways. As such, understanding the online landscape of contemporary folklore is crucial for grasping the formation and circulation of belief in the digital age. Ultimately, Peck argues that advancing our comprehension of legends online can help us better understand how similar belief genres—like fake news, conspiracy theories, hoaxes, rumors, meme culture, and anti-expert movements—are enabled by digital media.

Download or read book Alternate Reality Games and the Cusp of Digital Gameplay written by Antero Garcia and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) challenge what players understand as “real.” Alternate Reality Games and the Cusp of Digital Gameplay is the first collection to explore and define the possibilities of ARGs. Though prominent examples have existed for more than two decades, only recently have ARGs come to the prominence as a unique and highly visible digital game genre. Adopting many of the same strategies as online video games, ARGs blur the distinction between real and fictional. With ARGs continuing to be an important and blurred space between digital and physical gameplay, this volume offers clear analysis of game design, implementation, and ramifications for game studies. Divided into three distinct sections, the contributions include first hand accounts by leading ARG creators, scholarly analysis of the meaning behind ARGs, and explorations of how ARGs are extending digital tools for analysis. By balancing the voices of designers, players, and researchers, this collection highlights how the Alternate Reality Game genre is transforming the ways we play and interact today.

Download or read book Career Building Through Alternate Reality Gaming written by Meg Swaine and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2008-01-15 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of alternate reality gaming, and describes the knowledge, skills, education, and experience needed to pursue a career in this field.

Download or read book Alternate Reality Games written by Stephanie Janes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using textual analysis, interviews with game designers, audience surveys, and close analysis of player forum discussion, this book examines the unique nature of the producer/consumer relationship within promotional Alternate Reality Games (ARGs). Historically, ARGs are rooted in advertising as much as they are in narrative storytelling. As designers often have to respond to player actions as the game progresses, players can have an impact on the storyline, on character behaviour, and potentially on the final resolution of the narrative. This book explores how both media consumers and producers are responding to this new reconfiguration of the producer/consumer/prosumer dynamic in order to better understand the diverse advertising experiences available to media audiences today. With a focus on participatory culture and the political economy of promotional communications, this in-depth analysis of ARGs will appeal to academics and researchers in the fields of games, film, advertising, and media and cultural studies.

Download or read book Beyond Reality written by John Gosney and published by Course Technology. This book was released on 2005 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information on designing alternate reality games

Download or read book This Might be a Game written by Jane Evelyn McGonigal and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Alternate Reality Games For Behavioral and Social Science Research written by Ruthanna Gordon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By weaving fictional narratives and problem solving into everyday life, alternate reality games (ARGs) may be able to fill gaps left by traditional studies in the behavioral and social sciences. Researchers are exploring new ways to address concerns such as ecological validity, inconsistent replication, and recruitment of large and diverse sample populations. ARG-based research design, using familiar tools and multimedia venues to engage players in meaningful interaction within complex near‐real‐world environments, offers methods that can make a difference. This book examines the potential strengths of ARG‐based social science research, the challenges that remain to be overcome, and potential starting points for testing these possibilities.