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Abstract

Sherry Turkle: Video Games and Computer Holding Power (1984). In: The New Media Reader, MIT Press, 2003.

Case Study Asteroids
- girl playing Asteroids in a café in NY Little Italy
- movement of fingers compaired with staccato in music
- she is anoyed, complains but still keeps playing every day
- she is more "possessed" by the game than enjoying it
- children in a driven, addictive relationship to the machine
Video Games on the Market
- by 1982 more money spent on video games than movies / records
- peak of excitement about the games passeed with ntheir novelty
- but video games have become part of the cultural landscape
Protests against Video Games
- carries a message how people feel about computers in general
- computers became a crucial part of everyday life
- people have are ambivalent about growing computer presence
- people like new conveniences (bank tellers, supermarkt)
- children take the technology for granted, as a fact of life
- new kind of generation gap between parents and children
Myth of Mindless Addiction
- video games as a window onto new kind of intimacy with machines
- thos who fear the games often compare them to television
- game players more likely compare it with sports, sex, meditation
- television is something you watch, video games something you do
- video games are interactive computer microworlds