New discursive and technological modalities in contemporary politics

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New discursive andtechnologicalmodalities in

contemporarypolitics

Patrick J. Coppock, Universityof Modena and Reggio Emilia,

Departmentof Social, Cognitive and Quantitative [email protected]

http://game.unimore.it


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Politics in Transworld, TransmediaGameplay Space

Premise1: Political discourse is essentiallyrelational, in

character - a question of building and maintainingaffective and strategic alliances with non co-presentothers.

Premise 2: Transworld, transmedia ludic and social mediaare designed to remediate enactive experience ofengagement with non co-present tangible (people,places, things) and intangible otherness (possible worlds,cultural practices)

Premise 3: An important component of this enactive

experience isamodal perception that creates a sense ofPresence in Absence No (2004, 2009)


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Presence in Absence


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Amodal Perception (No)

Perceptual experience has an uneliminable amodal

component We routinely experience aspects of the physical world as

present for us, though some of its empirical details may behidden from view.

it seems as if you are aware, in a perceptual modality, of

something that is plainly out of view

in seeing what is visible, you have a sense a visual sense

of the presence of the [thing] as a whole


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Amodal Perception (No)

Phenomenologically speaking, nearby environmental

detail is experienced as presence in absence it isavailable, but never holistically represented:

the world as given to perception is available

there is no such thing as seeing all the detail at once

perceivers know how to gain access


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EnactiveExperience (No)

We are aware that our embodied agency allows us to

explore, and meaningfully fill out, missing details ofour immediate environment:

experience isnt something that happens to us, it is

something we do

enacting perceptual content [is] making contact with

the world through skillful exercise we have practical knowledge of how to bring []

unperceived items into view by movements of the body


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Environmental detail is present for us in the sense that it

is constantly available through skillful probing of theworld

the world is given to perception as available

perceptual experience is a temporally extended activity of

skillful probing

directed looking [is] the visual equivalent of touching what mediates our perceptual relation with he world is only

our exploration of the world

perceiving is not a way of representing, it is a way of

gathering or assembling content


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Our phenomenological experience of the world, and the

meanings we attach to this obtain conceptual or othercontent through our exercise of refined sensorimotorskills.

perceptual awareness of objects, for enactive direct

realism, is an achievement of sensorimotor understanding

the world is present not in our minds but as available toour inspection

the world is present in experience virtually thanks to ouronline dynamic access to it

perceptual experience is virtual all the way in


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Glocal Transworld, Transmedia Identities

Premise 4: Transworld, transmedia gameplaygenius loci

act as open worlds that may facilitate growth ofglocal political identities through cooperititiveengagement with non co-present forms of otherness

Premise 5: Glocal political identities develop asenactive experiences of global and local actual and

possible worlds and the past, present and futureidentities these worlds construct entangle with oneanother in non-linear, non-predictable ways


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Actual and Possible Worlds

Wp1

Wp2

Wp4

Wp3

WaWp5

Wpn

Past Present Future


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LocalCinematographicPlayspace


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LocalVideogameplaySpace


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Ludic & Social Media


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BlendingCooperation&Competitionin Cooperition

Cooperation + Competition Cooperiton

UserGeneratedContent (UGC)

In (e.g.) videogames, virtualworlds& social networks :

Avatar Styling, Speed-Runs, Modding, Level Design

Island &PropertyDevelopment, Shops, Services

YouTube, facebookLinks, Videos, Photos,

Appsfor Facebook/Twitter/iPhone

Open Source Code development and sharing

Wiki, Wavecollectiveformsofat-a-distanceauthorship

Creative Commonsnewconceptionsofrightsofuse


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FromConsumption to Prosumption

Production / Consumption Model

Production + Governance

Top-Down

Consumption + Delegation

Cooperition / Prosumption Model

Cooperition + Peer-to-PeerBottom-Up

Prosumption + Engagement


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Transworld, Transmedia

Gamespace (Twinity)


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TransworldTransmediaGamespac

e (Twinity)


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TransworldTransmediaGamespa

ce (SecondLife)


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Antonio Di Pietro in Real Life


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Antonio Di Pietro in Second Life


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Transworld Relational GameplaySpace - Facebook


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Barack Obama Fan Page


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White House Fan Page


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Jens Stoltenberg Fan Page


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Silvio Berlusconi Fan Page


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Uccidoiamo Berlusconi Page


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Dario Franceschini Fan Page


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Transworld Semantic GameplaySpace -Twitter


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Iran Post-Election Protests


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Remediationof Cultural Memory&Trauma

Theme1: Remediating cultural memoryof trauma

Can transworld, transmedia remediationsof cultural traumahelp usengagewithpainfulmemoriesthatblendaspectsofpast,present and future actualand possibleworlds in

potentiallymeaningfulways?

Theme: 2Remediating cultural memoryofpain/suffering

Can transworld, transmedia depictionsofreal or virtualpain and suffering play a constructiverole in re-enganging and re-elaborating cultural memoryof

trauma?

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