Video Games & Virtual Worlds

54
Play & Learn Video Games & Virtual Worlds Studies Mark W. Bell

description

 

Transcript of Video Games & Virtual Worlds

Page 1: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

Play & Learn Video Games & Virtual Worlds Studies

Mark W. Bell

Page 2: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

Why?DefineEffectsIssues

Applications

Page 3: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

Why?

Page 4: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

http://www.flickr.com/photos/drb62/2054107736/sizes/o/

Page 5: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

Radio

http://www.flickr.com/photos/watz/78428407/sizes/o/

Page 6: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

Television

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13668275@N07/2297988757/sizes/o/

Page 7: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

Computers

http://www.flickr.com/photos/c2k2e/108326319/sizes/o/

Page 8: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

But…

Page 9: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

Video Games (VG)?

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2061/2514116780_651cf43315_b.jpg

Page 10: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

Virtual worlds (VW)?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bellabaroque/2372445992/sizes/o/

Page 11: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

Is a VG/VW Mass Media?

Page 12: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

What is a video game?

Page 13: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

http://zip-zapgames.com/wpcontent/uploads/2007/11/pong.png

Page 14: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

History II

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/46/117196042_5dec4dce06_o.jpg

Page 15: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickulas/1761199189/sizes/l/

Page 16: Video Games & Virtual Worlds
Page 17: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

vid·e·o game (vĭd'ē-ō‘ gām) n. 1. An electronically facilitated game with a sensory feedback.

Page 18: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

vir·tu·al world(ˈvər-chə-wəl ˈwər(-ə)ld) n. 1. A synchronous, persistent network of people, represented by avatars, facilitated by computers.

Page 19: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

http://westkarana.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/pern.png

Page 20: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

http://www.tentonhammer.com/system/files/images/habitat.preview.JPG

Page 21: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.massively.com/media/2008/04/os91_lotro_1024.jpg

Page 22: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

$$$

http://eschenck.typepad.com/ernie_schenck_calls_this_/images/cn_121_ticketboothsm.jpg

http://blog.rogersradiointernet.com/afternoondrive/files/2008/08/video-game.jpg

Page 24: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

http://www.mid.muohio.edu/computer/images/geek2.jpg

Page 25: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

Source: Entertainment Software Assn.

Page 26: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

Source: Entertainment Software Assn.

Page 27: Video Games & Virtual Worlds
Page 28: Video Games & Virtual Worlds
Page 29: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

Kevin WerbachSusan CrawfordBeth Noveck Irving Wladawsky-Berger

Page 30: Video Games & Virtual Worlds
Page 31: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

15 years from now, the prime minister of the day will have grown up playing computer games, just as 15 years ago we had the first prime minister to have grown up watching television, and 30 years ago to have grown up listening to the radio.- Richard Bartle (2008)

Page 32: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

Is there a VG/VW literacy?

http://www.jeboscreenshots.com//images/screenshots/255138205067WoWScrnShot_042906_053939.jpg

Page 33: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

Do VG/VW have effects?

CognitiveAttitudinalEmotional

PhysiologicalBehavioral

Page 34: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

Cognitive

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/58/159097849_764260f9e8.jpg?v=0

Page 35: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

Attitudinal

http://mythicmktg.fileburst.com/war/us/media/newsletter/2007_08/WAR_WitchElfModelWIP.jpg

Sex & Gender

Page 36: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

Emotional

Has A Video Game Made You Cry?

Page 37: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

Physiological

id.end.ity

Page 38: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

Behavioral

Violence

Page 39: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

http://wallpapers.dpics.org/wallpapers/21/Wii_Remote_(Wiimote)_and_Wii_Nunchuck.jpg

Why Does The Wii Work?

Page 40: Video Games & Virtual Worlds
Page 41: Video Games & Virtual Worlds
Page 42: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

Video Games Are…

ViolentSedentaryIsolating

Page 43: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

The Wii

Family FriendlyActiveSocial

Page 44: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

Future of VG/VW Studies

http://dylansurridge.com/panographer/uploaded_images/toshiba_vr_helmet%5B1%5D-740378.jpg

Page 45: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

Research on VG/VW Effects

http://pro.corbis.com/images/CB060558.jpg?size=572&uid={6434D4B8-02CE-4AFB-8ECD-AB7F0CAA0F03}

Page 46: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

Can Reality Become A

Game?

Page 47: Video Games & Virtual Worlds
Page 48: Video Games & Virtual Worlds
Page 49: Video Games & Virtual Worlds
Page 50: Video Games & Virtual Worlds
Page 51: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

Or are we in a game now?

Page 52: Video Games & Virtual Worlds
Page 53: Video Games & Virtual Worlds
Page 54: Video Games & Virtual Worlds

http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/watchdog/blog/question-mark.jpg