This thesis examines several aspects of narrative in video games, in order to construct a
detailed image of the characteristics that separate video game narrative from other …

The commercial begins, predictably, with the studio logo:“Lucas Arts.” Then the scene cuts to
a shot of a vast, sunlit cityscape which is soon blocked by the hulk of a moving spaceship. In …

This case study closely examines how John (a former student of mine, age eight, second
grade) composed during an informal writing group at school. Using qualitative research …

“There’s Fire Magic, Electric Magic, Ice Magic, or Poison Magic”: The World of Video Games
and Adrian’s Compositions abo Page 1 21 Composing with V ideo Games We may have …

This volume explores one of the central issues that has been debated in internet studies in
recent years: locality, and the extent to which cultural production online can be embedded in …

This paper explores the dialectic between video games and film. The researcher analyzed
how video games have been depicted, represented, and incorporated into feature-length …

In this paper, I discuss the development of the games console as a converged form, focusing
on the industrial and technical dimensions of convergence. Starting with the decline of …

Almost thirty years ago, Brown (1987) argued that soap operas have specific defining
features (p. 4). Though soap operas have declined in popularity since then, certain …

This thesis explores how massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), as an exemplary
new media form, disrupt practices associated with more conventional media. These …

This article analyses the work of the US-Nicaraguan multimedia artist Ricardo Miranda
Zúñiga, with a particular focus on his 2002 work, Vagamundo. Paying particular attention to …