Interpreting Technoscience Lecture: Game On! Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the XBox
Thursday, February 19, 2009
| Mar |
| 11 |
| 4:00 pm |
Hector Postigo, Department of Broadcasting, Telecommunications & Mass Media, Temple University, will present, as part of the CAS Initiative Lecture Series, Game On! Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the XBox. The lecture will be presented on Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 4:00 PM, Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana. Video games, be they PC games or games for dedicated consoles like the Xbox or the Wii, are now relatively ubiquitous among American households and have quickly become more than just another entertainment medium. Professor Postigo discusses characteristics of video game culture, focusing on user-generated content such as machinima, fan modifications, and co-creative production. Reflections on these characteristics suggest a new era of consumer participation in content production that necessitates a refashioning of our understanding of ownership in commercial media content.
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