Articulations and Translations: Decentralizing Action in the Videogame

Carlos Baum; Cleci Maraschin

Articulations and Translations: Decentralizing Action in the Videogame

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This study explores the relation between cognition and videogame Player Character. It uses the procedural rhetoric as its main approach, understanding the activity of playing through its inner processes. The relation player-character-game often appears described in terms of representation and identification. We however suggest that some concepts by Bruno Latour -such as articulation and translation -describe this relationship more accurately. They allow for a decentralization of a supposed origin of action, be it from the subject, be it from the machine. A less dichotomic way to describe such relation is presented at last, allowing us to think the playing experience as capable of reconfiguring both game and player.

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Carlos Baum, Cleci Maraschin. 2014. "Articulations and Translations: Decentralizing Action in the Videogame". Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology - G: Interdisciplinary GJCST-G Volume 14 (GJCST Volume 14 Issue G4).

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Crossref Journal DOI 10.17406/gjcst

Print ISSN 0975-4350

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actor-network theory articulation cognition player character translation

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Submission ReceivedDecember 14, 2013
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