IAT 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Janet Murray, Engadget, Doubleclick
17 Mar 2016
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Lec 8 - jl 9 (paricipatory gaming building community around gameplay) esports: according to engadget. 134 million people watch esports worldwide and league of legends generated around billion in revenue in 2014 alone . Dedicated arenas have been built in china and uk. Dota2, starcrat, counterstrike, heartstone also have large followings. Caillois and esports: mimicry emulaing that the pros do, fantasy fulillment, analysis and speculaion from the sidelines, sharing a passion for the game. Agency: when the things we do bring tangible results, we experience the second characterisics delight of electronic environments the sense of agency. Agency is the saisfying power to take meaningful acion and see the results of our decisions and choices . Agency: we expect to feel agency on the computer when we double-click on a ile and see it open before us or when we enter numbers in a spreadsheet and see the totals readjust.
