Handcrafted gameworlds: Space-time biases in mobileMinecraftplay

Autor:	Nicholas Taylor, Joel Schneier
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	World Wide Web 0508 media and communications Sociology and Political Science Computer science Communication 05 social sciences ComputingMilieux_PERSONALCOMPUTING 050301 education 050801 communication & media studies Franchise Android (operating system) 0503 education
Zdroj:	New Media & Society. 20:3420-3436
ISSN:	1461-7315 1461-4448
DOI:	10.1177/1461444817749517
Popis:	In 2011, Mojang released Minecraft Pocket Edition ( PE), a mobile version of their popular Minecraft franchise for Android and iOS devices that allows the infinitely blocky sandbox worlds to be manipulated directly through touchscreen interfaces. While the virtual worlds created by Minecraft players have drawn attention of various researchers, the configurations of play made possible by different gaming devices—particularly touchscreen devices—have been largely under-examined. Using Barad’s notion of apparatuses to conceptualize gaming interfaces as sites of intra-activity, our study reports on a microethology of young Minecraft PE players engaged in collaborative play sessions. Over seven play sessions, which included two sessions observing Minecraft play on personal computer (PC)- and console-based versions, we examined how players’ bodies and gaming apparatuses collaboratively materialize gaming events that highlight the space-time biases of these different modes of Minecraft play that what we call momentary and monumentary.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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