Rising popularity of games and increased use of technology in schools have made game-based learning more popular in education. This realignment of local, regional and global connections has significant potential for reshaping notions of citizenship and cultural identity within the region. As a consequence, Australians have increasingly been able to play digital games with and among their neighbours on transnational gaming networks. In the last decade gaming infrastructures across the Asia-Pacific have become more standardized, and have focused on providing a networked and social experience of digital play. In rapidly growing economies like China and Indonesia, digital gaming is a popular form of entertainment. Australia’s neighbours in the Asia-Pacific such as South Korea and Japan are world leaders in the production of digital games. Australia is a notable producer of digital games and has a particularly high rate of digital game use. This expanded citizenship is informed by digital play with people from other cultures within the Asia-Pacific region.
This paper considers the growth of a transnational gaming public in Australia, and the potential for this public to contribute to an expanded sense of citizenship. Both of these theories' strengths and limitations for the study of Pokémon GO will be discussed. It has been criticized for its lack of concern with politics and gender (Lagesen, 2012). Actor-network theory, a strong methodological tradition in science and technology studies, sees actors and the networks they create as completely 'flat' and non-hierarchical. The cyberfeminism herein exploited is that of " the utopian tradition of imagining a world without gender " (Haraway, 2000, p. This analysis will use the views of cyberfeminism as well as actor-network theory. This particular game and its location-based technology will be analysed to explore the play space as a context for kinaesthetic awareness and embodiment. This essay will focus on the recent release Pokémon GO.
The franchise includes a plethora of entertainment media. In it, cute-looking creatures with superpowers fight each other for the fame and glory of their masters (the players). The Pokémon franchise has been successful with males and females (Tobin, 2004).
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Following Barad, I conclude that this quality is not unique to software, but software – and videogames above all – are a useful tool for understanding a vision of reality that favours activity over materiality as the basis of our existence. Accepting these propositions together, software can be understood as continuously reemerging through shared activities.
I explore SethBling’s codeinjection suggesting that actions clearly reveal software’s double existence as both tangible ‘thing’, locatable on magnetic memory, and as a vaporous non-entity. It then becomes possible to embrace software(s) as performative examples of the entangled ‘phenomena’, suggested by Barad (2007), that produce everyday reality through quantum activity. Academics and users alike should attempt to see software as living a double-life: as simultaneously solid as it is (metaphorically) gaseous. Though it is possible to contrast Wendy Chun’s (2008a) suggestion that one can view software as ‘vaporous’ against Friedrich Kittler’s (1995) assertion that ‘there is no software’, I propose a more holistic approach. Drawing from this I propose a performative understanding of videogames (and software in general) to reinvigorate discussions of software’s materiality.
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This article takes inspiration from Youtuber and software developer ‘SethBling’ and his 2016 ‘code-injection’ (Bling, 2016), in which, using only a standard Super Nintendo Entertainment System controller and in-depth knowledge of the console, he ‘injected’ and executed the code of popular mobile game Flappy Bird (Nguyen, 2013) into a running instance of Super Mario World (Miyamoto, 1990), effectively transforming one game into another through play.
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