torsdag, mars 19, 2020

Born from the computer: Gamer Culture

The answer to the question: how long does it take to play WoW?
From the players: How much time do you spend playing?

Gold farming in 2009.

LAN parties
Dreamhack
The Gathering (cancelled 2020 due to the pandemic)
LAN parties in Denmark

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Gamers don't have to be your audience. Gamers are over.

Consumption and Gender Identity
Linda Tuncay Zayer, Katherine Sredl, Marie-Agnès Parmentier & Catherine Coleman (2012) Consumption and gender identity in popular media: discourses of domesticity, authenticity, and sexuality, Consumption Markets & Culture, 15:4, 333-357, DOI: 10.1080/10253866.2012.659437

Identity politics - Philosophy Talks

Rodney King and the riots (Encyclopædia Britannica)



torsdag, mars 12, 2020

Ludic Culture in Social Media - Digital Media and Communication, ITU 12 March 2020

Statistics of working hours, visualisation.
The weekly work hours in Denmark since 1900.
Development of leisure time - fritid - in Denmark.

The Glitter Bomb - invention and play.
Ball gown with adjustable neckline

Tinkering on Cuba in the nineties - repurposing technology.

Inventions 2019: Better bike navigation

User-driven invention - human beatboxing.
Linus Torvalds - developer of Linux (from Wikipedia)
Open-source initiative.

Spacewar history

Bit-torrent: Pirate Bay
Pirate party (from Wikipedia.)

Judith Butler, and article discussing her theory of the Performativity of Gender. (PS: Gender Trouble, her famous book, is currently free if you were planning to set up an Audible account anyway - march 2020.)

The New Mobilities Paradigm

Visual ethnography, the image is taken from here.