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Class 6 – 10/21/15: “Frictions & Fictions: Consumer Contracts & Creative Constraints ” & Roch Ripley
Slides and video below: jon jon
News of the Week; October 21, 2015
GAMES 2K Games takes heat for using game journalist’s likeness in ‘WWE 2K16’ video 12 arrested in eSports match fixing scandal – Report Egyptian TV News Uses Video Game Footage As Proof Of Russian Precision Strikes Against ISIL Konami Ingeniously Fuses Two Things Everybody Hates: Insurance And In-Game Microtransactions Payday 2 players in revolt over […]
Class 6 Guest Speaker: Roch Ripley
Roch Ripley is a great friend and co-author of the 2nd Edition of Video Game. He is a partner in Gowlings’ Vancouver office and is co-chair of their Technology Industry Group. He has been an Adjunct Professor in this course and has always been very supportive of it. Roch will share his perspectives on a […]
Class 5 – 10/14/15: “Consumers & Users As Creators & Connectors” & Mavis Dixon
Video and PowerPoints below. A few little sound glitches and, yes, I did decide to rename my slides after the fact… jon
News of the Week; October 14, 2015
GAMES Can Apple stop you re-downloading a delisted game? Call of Duty dev apologizes for fake terrorist “news” Twitter promo: Marketing stunt featured live updates on fictional attack in Singapore. Zynga launches gamified ads: Sponsored Play program puts ad games within games, touted as “the next wave in mobile advertising” O’Bannon v. NCAA Popular FIFA YouTubers […]
Ace Attorneys: Technology and Change
Ludology Research Seven Interdisciplinary Papers on Technology & Change 1) Claudio Feijoo et al, “Mobile gaming: Industry challenges and policy implications”, online: (2012) 36 Telecommunications Policy 212 <http://ac.els-cdn.com/S0308596111002242/1-s2.0-S0308596111002242-main.pdf?_tid=1ec6e6f8-72a5-11e5-84d2-00000aab0f6c&acdnat=1444849101_8793eb880405667bdf2dcbb12a587f68>. 2) Elizabeth Evans, “The economics of free: Freemium games, branding and the impatience economy”, online: (2015) 1:18 Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies […]
Knights of Allardia: Video Game Violence
Ludology Research 1 Effects of Violent video Games on Aggressive Behavior, Aggressive Cognition, Aggressive Affect, Physiological Arousal, and Prosocial Behaviour: A Meta-Analytic Review of the Scientific Literature – Craig A. Anderson and Brad J. Bushman (Iowa State University) http://pss.sagepub.com/content/12/5/353.full.pdf+html Evidence for publication bias in video game violence effects literature: A meta-analytic Review – Christopher […]
Class 4 – 10/7/15: “Right to the CreaTE or Rights to the Creation” & Brian Dartnell
Slides and Video (of Jon’s talk). First 1:28 of audio missing for some reason. jon