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Video games and Computing Holding Power, by Sherry Turkle. (from her book '''The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit)  
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
*video games are a window into a new kind of intimacy

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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)