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Making videogame history: videogame preservation and copyright law [PDF]
The continued accessibility of older videogames is threatened by the obsolescence of the hardware and software platforms on which they operate and the degradation of the physical media on which they are stored. This has made videogame preservation a topic of increasing concern to cultural heritage institutions.
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The use of virtual reality-based tasks for studying memory has increased considerably. Most of the studies that have looked at child population factors that influence performance on such tasks have been focused on cognitive variables.
David Rodríguez-Andrés +3 more
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Media Multitasking Among American Youth: Prevalence, Predictors and Pairings [PDF]
In recent years, the issue of media multitasking has sparked a broad discussion about the potential impact on children and youth and has raised concerns among non-profits about how best to engage young people with social marketing campaigns.To help ...
Ulla G. Foehr
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Language-GAME-Players: Articulating the pleasures of ‘violent’ game texts [PDF]
Young peoples’ voices have been considered irrelevant or unreliable when it comes to discussing the influence and impact of their engagement with screen-mediated depictions of violence.
Schott, Gareth R.
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Os jogos eletrônicos fazem parte do cotidiano da sociedade. Embora sejam muitas vezes tratados como objetos de lazer, podem contribuir para compreensão de temas geográficos como espaço e paisagem.
Eduardo Lorini Carneiro, Luciana Backes
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Demon girl power: Regimes of form and force in videogames primal and Buffy the Vampire Slayer [PDF]
'There's nothing like a spot of demon slaughter to make a girl's night'. Since the phenomenal success of the Tomb Raider (1996) videogame series a range of other videogames have used carefully branded animated female avatars.
Krzywinska, T
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L’immaginario storico promosso dai videogiochi: un’opportunità in chiave didattica
The paper aims at discussing how historical knowledge is transmitted in the videogame series “Age of Empires”. Charsky&Mims (2008) suggested that students, at the end of the videogame activity, compare the information gathered with that provided by ...
Domenico Francesco Antonio Elia
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Fact, Fiction and Virtual Worlds [PDF]
This paper considers the medium of videogames from a goodmanian standpoint. After some preliminary clarifications and definitions, I examine the ontological status of videogames.
Declos, Alexandre
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Understanding Videogames. Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Jonas Heide-Smith, Susana Pajares Tosca.
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Brechtian alienation in videogames
Immersion is constantly being broken in video games via the intrusion of mechanics and features that cause no end of distraction, breaking the player's engagement in both the game's narrative and in the gameplay. Yet these breaks are an integral part of games, whether through loading, saving or any other mechanical system that detracts from the playing
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