Lec 6 Academic Study of Video Game

Today, the topic is focus on academic study of video game.At the beginning of the lecture, teacher showed us a video about digital game. Nowadays, video is more and more popular than TV and movies because people think they can be a party of video game. A player said that she is fond of video because she can do things which she could not do in the real world. With the developing of technology, the video is tendency commercial, and it makes lots of money. Some people put the game staffs on to eBay to sell, and then some people use real money to buy them. However, produce a video game is a complicated process. It needs artist and animation staffs work together. For example, artist draws the pictures, musical produces music and then animation staffs will connect all elements and put them into computer to make the video games. In order to be accuracy and reality, the video games makers need to do more references before they establish the 3D environment. For instance, they have to look up the map to find the location and reading papers to understand the different times’ situations and create the characteristics through watching the picture or photos. Also, a video game need a good story to attract more people to joy in and this is a difficult part of game that game maker mentions. Last, people like video game because not only can they create a new society and world by themselves but also can enjoy different life in the video games.


I am going to write topic 4. I did researches and now I am going to summarise the useful paper that I am going to use in my essay.

These are journals and books that I am going to use:

Bimber, B, & Davis, R 2003, Campaigning online: the Internet in U.S elections, Oxford University Press, New York.

Carty, R.K. (ed) 1988. Three Canadian party Systems: An interpretation of the development of national politics. In Perlin, Party Democracy in Canada: the politics of national party conventions (pp. 15-30).

Gunter, B. (2006). Advances in e-democracy: Overview. Emerald Group Publishing Limited 58(5), 361-370.

Galston, William 1999, “Does the Internet Strengthen Community?”, Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, Maryland School of Public Affairs, accessed

Jansen, H 2004, 'Is the Internet Politics as usual or Democracy's Future?', The Innovation Journal: The Public Sector Innovation Journal, Vol.9.

Rainie, Lee et al 2006 (John Horrigan, Barry Wellman, Jeffrey Boase), “The Strength of Internet Ties” in Communities, Social Networking (Jan 25, 2006). Pew Internet & American Life Project, accessed viahttp://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2006/The-Strength-of-Internet-Ties.aspx

Rubin, A 2000, ‘Security Considerations for Remote Electronic voting over the Internet’. Viewed 30 November 2009. via
http://www.publicpolicy.umd.edu/IPPP/fall1999/internet_community.htm

These researches argued that the something about the internet and politics. It also addressed the situation about the nation/state in the age of networks that have the potential to span the whole planet and the idea of "community" in the age of networked digital media. Those researches are very useful to my essay.