RT Book, Section
T1 Cultural archaeology of video games: between nostalgic discourse, gamer experience, and technological innovation
A1 López Raventós, Cristian
A1 Belli, Simone
AB This paper presents a history of video games as innovation form beyond entertainment, offering reasons to establish why it is important to know and study their history with regards its social and cultural contexts: making emphasis in the importance that the users have when creating video games through experience. The social and cultural context in which those video games were born is fundamental to understand the diffusion and popularity that video games had throughout the ‘80s and especially in the ‘90s. The objective of this study is to identify the communication and information strategies of video games prior to the arrival of the Internet, especially the way in which this information was shared in the Spanish context. In the first part of the paper, we introduce the theoretical and methodological framework in which this research is based, through the concept of cultural archeology. In the second part, we present stories created by the users to analyze the gaming experience and how to share it, using the concepts of playformance and play-world, to finish questioning the gamer’s identity as a white, young, middle-class male subject.Finally, we want to point out the importance of sharing knowledge and strategies as a fundamental part of the social interaction of the gamer’s experience. We observed video games as a tool to identify something beyond: the society and the uses that move around a cultural product.
PB Springer Nature Switzerland AG
SN 978-3-030-32474-2
SN 978-3-030-32475-9 (eBook)
SN 1865-0929
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/102847
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/102847
LA eng
NO Belli, S., López Raventós, C. (2019). Cultural Archaeology of Video Games: Between Nostalgic Discourse, Gamer Experience, and Technological Innovation. In: Florez, H., Leon, M., Diaz-Nafria, J., Belli, S. (eds) Applied Informatics. ICAI 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1051. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32475-9_29
NO Comunidad de Madrid
DS Docta Complutense
RD 8 abr 2025