'Live in your world, play in ours': The spaces of video game identity

Submitted by Jason Rutter on Wed, 21/03/2007 - 16:17.

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Publication Type		Journal Article
Year of Publication		2004
Authors		Murphy, S. C.
Journal Title		Journal of Visual Culture
Volume		3
Pagination		223-238
ISBN Number		1470-4129
Accession Number		ISI:000222929400007
Key Words		identification; identity; space; television; video games
Abstract		This article discusses how console video games map televisual space as both simulated and contiguous with the non-virtual space of the gamers and their own bodies. Gamer identification, identity politics in video games, video game stars and video game violence are also explored here. Murphy argues that video games utilize televisual technology to produce interactive experiences for gamers, whose own bodies are physically impacted by game play in subtle ways. How video gamers interact with the virtual bodies of their player-characters is key to understanding how video games facilitate a different interaction with televisual space than that enacted through viewing television programming.

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