These novels bring up the concept of survelliance, and mind-control through various media. The concept of mass media itself was not codified in writing until the early 20th century, the significance of the timing provides support for arguments that mass media helps to deinfe the modern period in the West.
Mass media is seen by and as a direct output of a capitalist democracy, and an essential component in the maintaing of a centralized government. Anyone who has acess to the technology and the skills to operate a computer can provide content. It is an avenue not considered by many of the main media theorists simply beause the internet was not yet a reality in their time. Grassroots campaigns, blogs and YouTube appear to creating not only a national, but an international forum.
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By choosing I Accept , you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. Springfield Washington Elections. Dear Abby Horoscopes Lifestyles Music. View Obituaries Place an Obituary Celebrations. Home Drive Working. Filed under: Chicago-pedia Entertainment and Culture Chicago. Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. The game as a system of rules also prevents the player from breaking out of this position.
In Resident Evil , for example, the player is forced into certain perspectives as they enter different rooms. These perspectives often hide enemies so that the only warning the player has before they run into them are shuffling moans and groans.
In essence, the video game is millions of lines of code wrapped in aesthetics, sound, and action that set rules for the player. These rules are indisputable. They cannot be tweaked for the player without changing settings which they then must be given the option of or breaking into the code of the video game and altering these rules directly.
This alteration cannot be done arbitrarily and still create a functioning video game; a knowledge of the coding language is also necessary. Video games are about tactility and rules rather than simply being an interactive mixture of various media. The most physically influential part of the video game lies in its hardware. The player usually manipulates something physical, such as a joystick or a series of buttons or keys, in order to interact with the images on the screen.
This externality is evident in its necessity—video games are often inherently tactile, a visceral interaction with a piece of hardware that conveys its message to the software.
In this way, the video game is an extension of the body as McLuhan suggested, lending itself a physical understanding of the world inside the video game. Although games that require other interaction in lieu of touch such as voice-commands exist, they are few and far between; physical interaction is the standard. Some game systems utilize this tactility to the maximum. The Nintendo Wii, for example, requires the player to manipulate not only buttons on the remote, but also to swing and shake their arms in order to control the character or complete actions within the game.
These actions usually correspond to actions the actual character must do. In games such as The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword , the player swings the Wii-mote to make the main character swing his sword. In Cooking Mama , the player wiggles the Wii-mote to stir or brings it slowly down to peel a carrot, simulating real movement. Other games minimize their controls, dissecting parts of reality in separate buttons and keystrokes while still maintaining a necessity for precision in these movements.
While running with the corporeal, flesh-and-bone body, the runner does not think to move calf and thigh separately; the leg is its own extension of the body, moving as a whole part to take a step or run forward. QWOP forces the player to confront them as independent areas to be moved. Similarly, Surgeon Simulator relegates each finger on the left hand to an independent keystroke on the keyboard: A for the pinky, F for the index finger, and the spacebar for the thumb.
These controls are more natural, but the right hand must simultaneously control the movement of the very left hand, another alienation of the correspondence of body to control. The result is a clunky, awkward movement of this supposed extension of the body. Medium, version, Year , s. Title of Reference Work, Year , s. Encyclopaedia Britannica , 15th ed. Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed. CD-ROM, version 4. Dictionary of American Biography , s.
Most other reference works, however, are more appropriately listed with full publication details like any other book resource. Bibliography Entry. Garner, Bryan A. New York: Oxford University Press,
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