DIGC201 Week 530032010
DIGC201 Week 530032010
DIGC201 Week 530032010
Week 5:
PC Games and Gamers
"Games are popular art, collective, social reactions to the
main drive or action of any culture. Games, like institutions,
are extensions of social man and the body politic, as
technologies are extensions of the animal organism. Both
games and technologies are counter-irritants or ways of
adjusting to the stress of the specialised actions that occur in
an social group. As extensions of the popular response to the
workaday stress, games become faithful models of a culture.
They incorporate both the action and the reaction of whole
populations in a single dynamic image." (McLuhan 1964: 316)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobb/43826727/
Domestic computing (1975-
1980)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC
Commodore 64 1982
Circuit of Capital Accumulation
MMO
Thottbot.Com Curse.Com
Allakhazam.com WOWUI.COM
http://wow.allakhazam.com/mediabox/dopeopleacutallyreadtheagreement.jpg
Steam (2003)