Media in the Online Age

George

Video Games Pre-Internet

Single player focus

No MMORPG

^ Best game whenever the internet cut out

The Future of Video Games

What might this look like? - Our Predictions

360 no scope

-Tia briers 2017

realistic horror games will give people PTSD

MCDONALDS MCDONALDS KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN AND A PIZZA HUT (and bacon roll)

Retro mobile games:

Snake (Nokia)

Virtual girlfriends will be the thing! Women will go extinct.

bacon roll

we are number one

video games might be so realistic, people will forget how to communicate physically

Future moms will know that an online game cannot be paused.

VR for everyone!

everything is oppression

People will have tinfoil hats because they will be afraid from WEb 3.0 taking their brains

stop spammin mai box with ur spam

GO AWAY ANGE

10/10 meme

this mailbox is mine

Alex Jones is god

All wars will be digital!

^this will die

100 year war will end between the computer vs consoles will probably end. maybe. ok maybe never.

OMG SHE SAID REKT AHAHAAAAAAA BURNNNNN

Henry Jenkins

75 k :p i have no lyf

Netflix will take over Steam. Netflix and die is the new craze

u lame get rekt m8

who even plays this game man?

Convergence Culture

i do

Participatory Culture

wow

David Gauntlett

Participatory culture is where individuals collaborate/contribute towards a product. this can be done by creating YouTube videos, fan-art online discussions on forums or social media such as Facebook or Twitter. This has become possible with the creation of Web 2.0; the internet can connect people from all across the world who share the same interests. This is also known as a fandom.

Web 2.0

Media in the Online Age

Media convergence is using the old media with the new. For example gaming. We would use old media (TV) with the new media being the game console.

Technological convergence is still the idea of mixing the new and old media together. The use of a mobile phone being a multiple media platform is an example of technological convergence. The old media would be the idea of personal music player such as MP3’s then being used within the phone. There is no need for multiple devices anymore where we live in an era where media is now compact into smaller ones such as mobile phones.

Economic convergence is the horizontal integration of the entertainment industry. Sony now have interests in other media such as Films, Books, Games and Music.

This results in transmedia exploitation of branded properties. Now products will have multiple forms of media associated with the original product. Transmedia exploitation widens that market to a larger target audience.

Social convergence appears in our society, this involves using different types of media at once. Such as playing video game and listening to music at the same time. Also applies when listening to music and suffering the internet or reading a book.

hungry

Video game example: Skyrim

Cosplay

Fan Videos

This Xbox One screen grab shows the extent of convergence. We can play games, watch TV stream films and browse the internet all from the games console.

fanfiction

[again will get when youtube will work]

fanart

Video Games

David Gauntlett is a British Sociologist and media theorist. David's Idea of connection influenced our internet today, revolutionizing from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0. He stated that "Making is Connecting - an inspirational call to recognize the relationship between encouraging creativity and fostering and engaged citizenry." An example of connection can be seen in modern games, especially Massive Multilayer Online Role Playing games (MMORPG) such as 'World Of Warcraft' or 'League Of Legends.' Now, people can connect with each other in real time and experience the game as a group. Before, games could be played together when the person was located (psychically) next to another player. Even though David has many unflattering angles, his idea of Web 2.0 revolutionized us into becoming more social through the screen instead.

Replica weapon making

Mods

Forums

[will find when youtube wants to work]

video games REEEEEEEEE

bad fan art

no

top memes

Get rekt

Saying Hi is illegal

Chris Anderson

spam

Long Tail Theory

diseases

This is not ok guys!!!

back off m8s bagsy this - geogre

angie's circle

David Buckingham

Long tail theory, coined by Chris Anderson, concerns the sales of a product over time. It states that at the highest point of the chart, the game is popular all at once. The slope, or tail, is where the popularity decreases over time. To succeed, products should cater for both the long tail of the market and the mainstream.

my crappy graph

Believes that young people have no fixed identity; they are all mashups of other people's opinions. They can always adapt to the mass of unavoidable, mainstream content rather than being their own human being.

Any game that allows Avatar creation fulfills Buckingham's ideas about no fixed identities.

He studies children

and young peoples' interactions with electronic media

good for studying kids with :p

nice glasses m8

Mainstream content is promoted more than niche products.

Digital Distribution

idk whose this is

Mainstream gaming forms the more generic and high revenue end of the scale. They still use traditional methods of distribution and have big marketing campaigns.

Digital Distribution has allowed indie games to have a wider and long release. Platforms like Steam make this possible.