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

Alejandro Tortolini alemtor at gmail.com
Mon Mar 31 13:35:48 PDT 2014


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
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>>
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>> Texas Tech University
>>
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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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