User:Amy Suo Wu/ Video games

Video games and Computing Holding Power, by Sherry Turkle. (from her book The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit)

• video games are a window into a new kind of intimacy
• holding power of video games - is computer holding power - constructed "rule-governed" worlds
• video games

  -> learning how to learn

  -> figuring out rules

  -> strategy

  -> reflects the computer within

• game is only limited by programmers imagination
• players feel more like inhabiting someone else's mind
• turning to games for more control in life (some people turn to material control i.e anorexia)
• video games invoke imagination and identification
• they feel more like a social encounter
• will the player be the designer of his or her game? (ability to create own world)
• video games give a sense of individual liberation. (empowers and yet it is form of escapism)