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Videology: Video‐Games as Postmodern Sites/Sights of Ideological Reproduction
Author(s) -
Gottschalk Simon
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
symbolic interaction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.874
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1533-8665
pISSN - 0195-6086
DOI - 10.1525/si.1995.18.1.1
Subject(s) - ideology , postmodernism , sight , reproduction , sociology , aesthetics , art , political science , law , literature , politics , ecology , astronomy , physics , biology
As new technologies, video‐games are becoming increasingly popular among today's pre‐teens and teenagers. Relying on systematic observation of videogames found in public arcades, participation in them, and engagement with the relevant literature, I explore eight central assumptions of “videology”: the ideology which organizes these games. While suggesting that these assumptions articulate and exaggerate problematic ideological themes, I also explore the relationship between videology and a postmodern culture or moment.