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Handmade Pixels - Independent Video Games and the Quest for Authenticity / Jesper JUUL / MIT PRESS (2019)
Titre : Handmade Pixels - Independent Video Games and the Quest for Authenticity Type de document : e-book Auteurs : Jesper JUUL Editeur : MIT PRESS Année de publication : 2019 ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 9780262042796 Note générale : copyrighted Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : An investigation of independent video games?creative, personal, strange, and experimental?and their claims to handcrafted authenticity in a purely digital medium.Video games are often dismissed as mere entertainment products created by faceless corporations. The last twenty years, however, have seen the rise of independent, or ?indie,? video games: a wave of small, cheaply developed, experimental, and personal video games that react against mainstream video game development and culture. In Handmade Pixels, Jesper Juul examine the paradoxical claims of developers, players, and festivals that portray independent games as unique and hand-crafted objects in a globally distributed digital medium.Juul explains that independent video games are presented not as mass market products, but as cultural works created by people, and are promoted as authentic alternatives to mainstream games. Writing as a game player, scholar, developer, and educator, Juul tells the story of how independent games?creative, personal, strange, and experimental?became a historical movement that borrowed the term ?independent? from film and music while finding its own kind of independence.Juul describes how the visual style of independent games signals their authenticity?often by referring to older video games or analog visual styles. He shows how developers use strategies for creating games with financial, aesthetic, and cultural independence; discusses the aesthetic innovations of ?walking simulator? games; and explains the controversies over what is and what isn't a game. Juul offers examples from independent games ranging from Dys4ia to Firewatch; the text is richly illustrated with many color images. Nombre d'accès : Illimité En ligne : http://library.ez.neoma-bs.fr/login?url=https://www.scholarvox.com/book/88874444 Permalink : https://cataloguelibrary.neoma-bs.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=491591 How Attention Works : Finding Your Way in a World Full of Distraction / Stefan Van Der STIGCHEL / MIT PRESS (2019)
Titre : How Attention Works : Finding Your Way in a World Full of Distraction Type de document : e-book Auteurs : Stefan Van Der STIGCHEL Editeur : MIT PRESS Année de publication : 2019 ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 9780262039260 Note générale : copyrighted Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : How we filter out what is irrelevant so we can focus on what we need to know.We are surrounded by a world rich with visual information, but we pay attention to very little of it, filtering out what is irrelevant so we can focus on what we think we need to know. Advertisers, web designers, and other ?attention architects? try hard to get our attention, promoting products with videos on huge outdoor screens, adding flashing banners to websites, and developing computer programs with blinking icons that tempt us to click. Often they succeed in distracting us from what we are supposed to be doing. In HowAttention Works, Stefan Van der Stigchel explains the process of attention and what the implications are for our everyday lives.The visual attention system is efficient, Van der Stigchel writes, because it doesn't waste energy processing every scrap of visual data it receives; it gathers only relevant information. We focus on one snippet of information and assume that everything else is stable and consistent with past experience; that's why most people miss even the most glaring continuity errors in films. If an object doesn't meet our expectations, chances are we won't see it. Van der Stigchel makes his case with examples from real life, explaining, among other things, the limitations of color perception (and why fire trucks shouldn't be red); the importance of location (security guards and radiologists, for example, have to know where to look); the attention-getting properties of faces and spiders; what we can learn from someone else's eye movements; why we see what we expect to see (magicians take advantage of this); and visual neglect and unattended information. Nombre d'accès : Illimité En ligne : http://library.ez.neoma-bs.fr/login?url=https://www.scholarvox.com/book/88867625 Permalink : https://cataloguelibrary.neoma-bs.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=484908
Titre : How Change Happens Type de document : e-book Auteurs : Cass R. SUNSTEIN Editeur : MIT PRESS Année de publication : 2019 ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 9780262039574 Note générale : copyrighted Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : The different ways that social change happens, from unleashing to nudging to social cascades."Sunstein's book is illuminating because it puts norms at the center of how we think about change."?David Brooks, The New York TimesHow does social change happen? When do social movements take off? Sexual harassment was once something that women had to endure; now a movement has risen up against it. White nationalist sentiments, on the other hand, were largely kept out of mainstream discourse; now there is no shortage of media outlets for them. In this book, with the help of behavioral economics, psychology, and other fields, Cass Sunstein casts a bright new light on how change happens.Sunstein focuses on the crucial role of social norms?and on their frequent collapse. When norms lead people to silence themselves, even an unpopular status quo can persist. Then one day, someone challenges the norm?a child who exclaims that the emperor has no clothes; a woman who says ?me too.? Sometimes suppressed outrage is unleashed, and long-standing practices fall. Sometimes change is more gradual, as ?nudges? help produce new and different decisions?apps that count calories; texted reminders of deadlines; automatic enrollment in green energy or pension plans. Sunstein explores what kinds of nudges are effective and shows why nudges sometimes give way to bans and mandates. Finally, he considers social divisions, social cascades, and ?partyism,? when identification with a political party creates a strong bias against all members of an opposing party?which can both fuel and block social change. Nombre d'accès : Illimité En ligne : http://library.ez.neoma-bs.fr/login?url=https://www.scholarvox.com/book/88867626 Permalink : https://cataloguelibrary.neoma-bs.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=484907
Titre : How to Be Human in the Digital Economy Type de document : e-book Auteurs : Nicholas AGAR Editeur : MIT PRESS Année de publication : 2019 ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 9780262038744 Note générale : copyrighted Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : An argument in favor of finding a place for humans (and humanness) in the future digital economy.
In the digital economy, accountants, baristas, and cashiers can be automated out of employment; so can surgeons, airline pilots, and cab drivers. Machines will be able to do these jobs more efficiently, accurately, and inexpensively. But, Nicholas Agar warns in this provocative book, these developments could result in a radically disempowered humanity.
The digital revolution has brought us new gadgets and new things to do with them. The digital revolution also brings the digital economy, with machines capable of doing humans' jobs. Agar explains that developments in artificial intelligence enable computers to take over not just routine tasks but also the kind of ?mind work? that previously relied on human intellect, and that this threatens human agency. The solution, Agar argues, is a hybrid social-digital economy. The key value of the digital economy is efficiency. The key value of the social economy is humanness.
A social economy would be centered on connections between human minds. We should reject some digital automation because machines will always be poor substitutes for humans in roles that involve direct contact with other humans. A machine can count out pills and pour out coffee, but we want our nurses and baristas to have minds like ours. In a hybrid social-digital economy, people do the jobs for which feelings matter and machines take on data-intensive work. But humans will have to insist on their relevance in a digital age.
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Titre : Human Rights in the Age of Platforms Type de document : e-book Auteurs : Rikke Frank JØRGENSEN Editeur : MIT PRESS Année de publication : 2019 ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 9780262039055 Note générale : copyrighted Langues : Anglais (eng) Résumé : Scholars from across law and internet and media studies examine the human rights implications of today's platform society. Today such companies as Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter play an increasingly important role in how users form and express opinions, encounter information, debate, disagree, mobilize, and maintain their privacy. What are the human rights implications of an online domain managed by privately owned platforms? According to the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, adopted by the UN Human Right Council in 2011, businesses have a responsibility to respect human rights and to carry out human rights due diligence. But this goal is dependent on the willingness of states to encode such norms into business regulations and of companies to comply. In this volume, contributors from across law and internet and media studies examine the state of human rights in today's platform society. The contributors consider the ?datafication? of society, including the economic model of data extraction and the conceptualization of privacy. They examine online advertising, content moderation, corporate storytelling around human rights, and other platform practices. Finally, they discuss the relationship between human rights law and private actors, addressing such issues as private companies' human rights responsibilities and content regulation. Contributors Anja Bechmann, Fernando Bermejo, Agnès Callamard, Mikkel Flyverbom, Rikke Frank Jørgensen, Molly K. Land, Tarlach McGonagle, Jens-Erik Mai, Joris van Hoboken, Glen Whelan, Jillian C. York, Shoshana Zuboff, Ethan Zuckerman Open access edition published with generous support from Knowledge Unlatched and the Danish Council for Independent Research. Nombre d'accès : Illimité En ligne : http://library.ez.neoma-bs.fr/login?url=https://www.scholarvox.com/book/88875569 Permalink : https://cataloguelibrary.neoma-bs.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=494610 PermalinkPermalinkInnovation + Equality : How to Create a Future That Is More Star Trek Than Terminator / Joshua GANS / MIT PRESS (2019)PermalinkInteractive Task Learning : Humans, Robots, and Agents Acquiring New Tasks through Natural Interactions / Kevin A. GLUCK / MIT PRESS (2019)PermalinkInvesting in Science : Social Cost-Benefit Analysis of Research Infrastructures / Massimo FLORIO / MIT PRESS (2019)PermalinkKinds Come First : Age, Gender, Class, and Ethnicity Give Meaning to Measures / Jerome KAGAN / MIT PRESS (2019)PermalinkPermalinkPermalinkPermalinkPermalink
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