Inter/vention : free play in the age of electracy / Jan Rune Holmevik ; foreword by Gregory Ulmer ; afterword by Ian Bogost.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holmevik, Jan Rune.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Philosophy.

Mass media.

Digital media--Philosophy.

Digital media.

Mass media--Technological innovations.

Mass media and technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 p.)

Other Title:

Intervention

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Chiefly concerned with MMRPGs (Massively Multiplayer Role-Playing Games) and the communities that they give rise to.

In today's complex digital world, we must understand new media expressions and digital experiences not simply as more technologically advanced forms of "writing" that can be understood and analyzed as "texts" but as artifacts in their own right that require a unique skill set. Just as agents seeking to express themselves in alphabetic writing need to be literate, "egents" who seek to express themselves in digital media need to be--to use a term coined by cybertheorist Gregory Ulmer--electrate. In Inter/vention, Jan Holmevik helps to invent electracy. He does so by tracing its path across the digital and rhetorical landscape--informatics, hacker heuretics, ethics, pedagogy, virtual space, and monumentality--and by introducing play as a new genre of electracy. Play, he argues, is the electrate ludic transversal. Holmevik contributes to the repertoire of electrate practices in order to understand and demonstrate how play invents electracy. Holmevik's argument straddles two divergences: in rhetoric, between how we study rhetoric as play and how we play rhetorically and in game studies, between ludology and narratology. Game studies has forged ludology practice by distinguishing it from literate practice (and often allying itself with the scientific tradition). Holmevik is able to link ludology and rhetoric through electracy. Play can and does facilitate invention: Play invented the field of ludology, Holmevik proposes a new heuretic in which play acts as a conductor for the invention of electracy. Play is a meta behavior that touches on every aspect of Ulmer's concept of electracy.

Contents:

Widescope

Hacker noir

Choral code

Venture

Intervention

Ludic ethics

Burning chrome.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-30090-7

1-280-49918-4

9786613594419

0-262-30165-2

OCLC:

780445242

Publisher Number:

ebr10539255