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The Fabric of Interface: Mobile Media, Design, and Gender

Lene Tøftestuen - 27.05.2021 - 17:54

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Lene Tøftestuen - 27.05.2021 - 17:56

Literature in the Digital Age: An Introduction

Lene Tøftestuen - 27.05.2021 - 18:01

Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames

Videogames are an expressive medium, and a persuasive medium; they represent how real and imagined systems work, and they invite players to interact with those systems and form judgments about them. In this innovative analysis, Ian Bogost examines the way videogames mount arguments and influence players. Drawing on the 2,500-year history of rhetoric, the study of persuasive expression, Bogost analyzes rhetoric's unique function in software in general and videogames in particular. The field of media studies already analyzes visual rhetoric, the art of using imagery and visual representation persuasively. Bogost argues that videogames, thanks to their basic representational mode of procedurality (rule-based representations and interactions), open a new domain for persuasion; they realize a new form of rhetoric. Bogost calls this new form "procedural rhetoric," a type of rhetoric tied to the core affordances of computers: running processes and executing rule-based symbolic manipulation. He argues further that videogames have a unique persuasive power that goes beyond other forms of computational persuasion.

Lene Tøftestuen - 27.05.2021 - 18:10