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Postcolonial feminism and auteur theory in video games - the case of Muriel Tramis - replication data
No full textThe data collected while working on the project, including the table of examined games and screenshots from the selected titles
Political and social issues in French digital games, 1982-1993
Get PDFDespite numerous publications about the history of digital games in the United States and Japan, there are few studies which aim to explore the past European trends in game design. For example, the French gaming industry remains unknown to the vast majority of game researchers. However, from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s a certain tendency emerged in this industry: political and social issues became overtly discussed within digital games. To examine such a tendency, the author follows the ‘emancipatory’ paradigm in digital game research (to cite Jaakko Suominen), instead of the ‘enthusiast’ Trans-Pacific-oriented ones. The objects of the analysis are several adventure games developed in France between 1982 and 1993 whose popularity during this period made them influential for the development of the French gaming industry. The author indicates three factors that contributed to the rapid growth of adventure games. These are the advancement of the personal computer market, the modest but existing support from French national institutions, and the article published by Guy Delcourt in the August 1984 issue of Tilt gaming magazine, which gave critical insight into previous development practices and suggested drawing inspiration from current events. The author distinguishes five thematic genres: Froggy Software’s avant-garde digital games, postcolonial and feminist games, investigative games, science fiction, and horror. Each of these provided numerous references to political affairs, economic stagnation and postcolonial critique of the past, which were severe issues in France during the 1980s and 1990s. Despite strong genre diversity, French adventure games shared similar pessimistic outlooks on the emerging “liquid modernity” (Zygmunt Bauman), during which France had to cope with more unstable work conditions, globalization, and immigration from the Maghreb countries. Because the French gaming industry in this period concentrated on local gamers and referred to their national culture, the author encourages game historians to turn their attention not only to Trans-Pacific games, but also to those manufactured outside Japan and the United States
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The fiction of interactivity : participatory films and their constraints
Get PDFNiniejszy artykuł jest próbą krytycznej analizy zjawiska określanego mianem „filmów interaktywnych”, reprezentowanego przez „Black Mirror: Bandersnatch”. Autor artykułu, wykazując zasadnicze problemy z interaktywnością mediów komputerowych jako takich, proponuje bardziej adekwatną nazwę: „filmy partycypacyjne”. Prześledzenie ich historii od lat 30. XX wieku, przez pełnometrażowe gry wideo, po współczesne hybrydy trójwymiarowych gier cyfrowych i form filmowych, pokazuje ich potencjał i ograniczenia. Autor dochodzi więc do wniosku, że „Bandersnatch” nie jest zjawiskiem nowatorskim, lecz anachroniczną kontynuacją dotychczasowego dorobku filmów partycypacyjnych.This article aims to analyze critically a phenomenon described as “interactive films”, represented by Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. The author of the article, pointing out crucial problems with the interactivity of computer media as such, suggests the more pertinent name: “participatory films”. Tracing their history from the 1930s, through full-motion video games, to contemporary hybrids of three-dimensional digital games and film forms, the author shows their potentials and constraints. Thus, the author concludes that Bandersnatch is not an innovative phenomenon but an anachronistic continuation of the participatory films’ up-to-date achievements
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Failed emancipation? Exxos/Cryo Interactive and counterculture in the service of science fiction renewal
No full textThis article examines selected games by the French studio Exxos (later Cryo Interactive) through textual analysis of three titles: Captain Blood (1987), Kult (1989), and Extase (1990). It argues that ambitious ludic experiments with the science fiction genre emerged in digital gaming as early as the late 1980s. By situating these games within countercultural currents, the author demonstrates how their frequent references to surrealist aesthetics and Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy position them as exemplars of failed emancipation – a transient rebellion against capitalist ideology. The findings challenge and enable a revision of dominant narratives of total escapism in 1980s science fiction gaming
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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