[Air-L] Asking for readings about video games and ethics

[Patrick Davison]

Both Mattie Brice: http://www.mattiebrice.com/
and Anna Anthropy: http://auntiepixelante.com/?page_id=2142

are people who both make games and write very intelligently about them,
often (but not always) various ethical dimensions to them. Some of my
favorite posts are:

http://auntiepixelante.com/?p=1853 (on goals in games)
http://auntiepixelante.com/?p=2182 (on game design and kink)
http://auntiepixelante.com/?p=2152 (on difference and class)
http://www.mattiebrice.com/the-meritocracy-of-video-games/ (on meritocracy)
http://www.mattiebrice.com/death-of-the-player/ (fantastically titled:
"Death of the Player")


On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 1:35 PM, Alejandro Tortolini <alemtor at gmail.com>wrote:

> Jennifer, Nicole, Luciano, Robert: thank you very much!!
> Other AIRlisters: more recommendations?
>
> Alejandro.
>
>
> 2014-03-31 16:13 GMT-03:00 Nicole Grove <nicolesunday at gmail.com>:
>
> > I agree with Robert, Ian Bogost's book Unit Operations and also How To Do
> > Things with Video Games are very good.  McKenzie Wark's Gamer Theory and
> > Alexander Galloway's Gaming: Essays on Algorithmic Culture are also good
> if
> > you are interested in the ethics of games and gaming.
> >
> > Best,
> > Nicole Grove
> > PhD Candidate
> > Johns Hopkins University
> >
> > https://johnshopkins.academia.edu/grove
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Peaslee, Robert <robert.peaslee at ttu.edu
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Alejandro,
> >>
> >> I would recommend Ian Bogost's work on procedural rhetoric, and you
> might
> >> message a MA student with whom I've been working, whose thesis, just
> >> defended, deals precisely with game design ethics among other things.
> His
> >> name is Andrew Potter: andrew.potter at ttu.edu
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> rp
> >> ________________________________________
> >>
> >> Robert Moses Peaslee, Ph.D.
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> >>
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> >>
> >>
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> >>
> >>
> >> "It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of
> the
> >> planet is not sufficient to break it." - Kalle Lasn, Adbusters
> >>
> >>
> >> On 3/31/14 1:33 PM, "Alejandro Tortolini" <alemtor at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> >Hi, I´m doing some research about video games and ethics... Can you
> >> >recomend me some books/readings about it?
> >> >I´m focusing in this two perspectives:
> >> >
> >> >1) Implicit or explicit values in video games.
> >> >
> >> >2) Gameplay and mechanics as a frame for ethical decisions in video
> >> games.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >Thanks in advance,
> >> >
> >> >--
> >> >Alejandro Tortolini
> >> >http://dooid.me/aletor
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