Realism in FIFA? How social realism enabled platformed racism in a video game

First Monday ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Srauy ◽  
John Cheney-Lippold
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Market Share ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Social Realism ◽  
Soccer Players ◽  
Online Video ◽  
Professional Soccer ◽  
Game Players ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Online Video Games

Platformed racism offers a unique lens through which to investigate technological structures that enable racism. Online video games, such as EA Sports’ FIFA series — which dominates the soccer video game market share through its touted realism — feature these structures. Like many platforms, FIFA enables representations of real bodies (i.e., professional soccer players). But, unlike many games, FIFA enables game players to directly affect the creation/modification of these representation in the form of player character cards. Analyzing a census of six years of player cards, this study found that platformed racism was enabled because the game’s realism invited racism when players tried to maintain that realism. The study concludes that the catalyst for racism to emerge in FIFA was the drive towards realism.

The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Video Game Consumption in Turkey

2022 ◽  
pp. 151-167
Author(s):  
Yasemin Özkent
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Digital Games ◽  
Online Video ◽  
Digital Game ◽  
Leisure Education ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
The World ◽  
Online Video Games

Different precautions such as quarantine, social distance, and hygiene applications have been taken around the world to prevent the spreading of the virus during the COVID-19 pandemic. While these precautions brought many sectors to a halt, digital-based platforms have been used more actively. The pandemic changed daily work, leisure, education, and the time spent with families and how people distribute their time on these items. The interest toward digital games increased as the result of COVID-19 quarantine. As people spent more time at home, they tended to play games to socialize. This study aims to evaluate the changes and tendencies in the consumption of video games during the pandemic period in Turkey. Accordingly, the consumption of online video games in 2020 was analyzed through comparing with 2019. As a result, it was detected that more time and money was spent during the pandemic period on the digital game sector which was also important before.

scholarly journals Causes and Effects of Online Video Game Playing among Junior-Senior High School Students in Malang East Java

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-202
Author(s):  
I Dewa Putu Eskasasnanda
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Online Video ◽  
Game Playing ◽  
School Students ◽  
Video Game Playing ◽  
Online Video Games ◽  
Senior High School Students

Science and technology development causes a lot of changes in any fields including the form of popular games among the Junior and Senior High School students in Indonesia.The traditional games that are famous formerly have been replaced by the modern games like online video game.This article discusses the cause and effect of the online video game playing on the Junior and Senior High Schools students in Malang.This study reveal that students play video games online due to peers pressure; and online video games are liked because they are considered more modern, practical, realistic and varied. Initially, students play online video games to relieve the fatigue due to studying at school, but subsequently, they are becoming addicted, and reach a condition that they find it difficult to stop playing games.This condition will directly affect their achievement in school.

Social Media and Online Gaming

2018 ◽  
pp. 220-239
Author(s):  
Pedro Ramos ◽  
Pierre Funderburk ◽  
Jennifer Gebelein
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Video Games ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Near Field ◽  
Online Video ◽  
Illicit Markets ◽  
Criminal Organizations ◽  
Video Game Consoles ◽  
Online Video Games

This article describes how the rise in technological innovation has allowed for transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) to expand their operations using virtual platforms such as social media and online video games. These virtual platforms are utilized by TCOs to conduct some of their traditional forms of crimes, such a money laundering. These criminal practices have found solace in technological innovation, mainly through the exploitation of rising technologies, such as online video games, video game consoles and peripherals, such as Virtual Reality headsets, inconspicuous electronic devices for children, Near-Field Communication (NFC), and finally, social media as tool for recruitment and immediate communication. TCOs have managed to utilize these mediums to conduct their criminal activities in part due to the lack or nonexistence of new or proper legislation that regulates how these new mediums can function without facilitating illicit activities and the germination of illicit markets.

scholarly journals Elements of Infrastructure Demand in Multiplayer Video Games

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 237-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Mirowski ◽  
Brian P. Harper
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Online Video ◽  
Multiplayer Games ◽  
Game Play ◽  
Critical Part ◽  
Video Game Play ◽  
Human Endeavor ◽  
Multiplayer Video Games ◽  
Online Video Games

With the advent of organized eSports, game streaming, and always-online video games, there exist new and more pronounced demands on players, developers, publishers, spectators, and other video game actors. By identifying and exploring elements of infrastructure in multiplayer games, this paper augments Bowman’s (2018) conceptualization of demands in video games by introducing a new category of ‘infrastructure demand’ of games. This article describes how the infrastructure increasingly built around video games creates demands upon those interacting with these games, either as players, spectators, or facilitators of multiplayer video game play. We follow the method described by Susan Leigh Star (1999), who writes that infrastructure is as mundane as it is a critical part of society and as such is particularly deserving of academic study. When infrastructure works properly it fades from view, but in doing so loses none of its importance to human endeavor. This work therefore helps to make visible the invisible elements of infrastructure present in and around multiplayer video games and explicates the demands these elements create on people interacting with those games.

Social Media and Online Gaming

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Ramos ◽  
Pierre Funderburk ◽  
Jennifer Gebelein
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Video Games ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Near Field ◽  
Online Video ◽  
Illicit Markets ◽  
Criminal Organizations ◽  
Video Game Consoles ◽  
Online Video Games

This article describes how the rise in technological innovation has allowed for transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) to expand their operations using virtual platforms such as social media and online video games. These virtual platforms are utilized by TCOs to conduct some of their traditional forms of crimes, such a money laundering. These criminal practices have found solace in technological innovation, mainly through the exploitation of rising technologies, such as online video games, video game consoles and peripherals, such as Virtual Reality headsets, inconspicuous electronic devices for children, Near-Field Communication (NFC), and finally, social media as tool for recruitment and immediate communication. TCOs have managed to utilize these mediums to conduct their criminal activities in part due to the lack or nonexistence of new or proper legislation that regulates how these new mediums can function without facilitating illicit activities and the germination of illicit markets.

Guild Wars 2, the Frankfurt School and Dialectical Fairy Scenes: A Critical Approach Towards Massively Multiplayer Online Video Games

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 547-567
Author(s):  
Mattias van Ommen
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Online Video ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Online Video Games ◽  
Massively Multiplayer

In this study, I use a revised approach of the Frankfurt School in order to critically assess a recent massively multiplayer online video game, Guild Wars 2. Starting with a brief historical overview of the Frankfurt School, I proceed by applying a revision of the school’s main contributions to analyzing Guild Wars 2. This includes an integration of processes of production and distribution, various levels of textual analysis, and audience reception. My main method of investigation is long-term participant observation, and throughout the article, I will argue for the use of such qualitative methods in the critical study of video games. Doing this, I have found that Guild Wars 2 offers a complex experience with enormous appeal and creative potential, while at other times being surprisingly restrictive, culminating in what Walter Benjamin would call a dialectical fairy scene.

scholarly journals Online Video Games Adoption: Toward an Online Game Adoption Model

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 163-171
Author(s):  
Mohammed Hokroh ◽  
Gill Green
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Online Video ◽  
Perceived Ease Of Use ◽  
Actual Use ◽  
Technology Adoption Model ◽  
Adoption Model ◽  
Online Video Games

The purpose of this research paper is to explore the factors that influence Saudi users to adopt and use online video games. We developed a theoretical framework based on the Technology Adoption Model (TAM) to examine 6 hypotheses through a survey of 106 video game users. The results indicate that social norms, perceived enjoyment, and social interaction play a positive and significant role in influencing the perceived usefulness of online video games for end users. Also, price value, game quality, and internet speed were all factors that influence end-user perceived ease of use of online video games. Both perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness were all of the significant influence on the attitude to use online video games. Furthermore, perceived usefulness and attitude to use online video games influenced the behavioral intention to use online video games which in return influenced the actual use.

Non-religious Players Asking Big Questions: Video Game Worlds Affording Affinities of Meaningful Encounters

2021 ◽  
pp. e20200012
Author(s):  
Heidi Rautalahti
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Video Games ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Qualitative Interview ◽  
Personal Lives ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
Search For Self ◽  
Game Players

The article examines player narratives on meaningful encounters with video games by using an argumentative qualitative interview method. Data gathered among Finnish adult video game players represents narratives of important connections in personal lives, affinities that the article analyzes as further producing three distinctive themes on meaningful encounters. Utilizing a study-of-religion framework, the article discusses meaning making and emerging ways of meaningfulness connected to the larger discussion on the “big questions” that are asked, explored, and answered in popular culture today. Non-religious players talk about intricate and profound contemplations in relation to game memories, highlighting how accidental self-reflections in mundane game worlds frame a continuing search for self.

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