Playing at Colonization Interpreting Imaginary Landscapes in the Video Game Tropico

被引：32

作者：

Magnet, Shoshana ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Illinois, Inst Commun Res, Urbana, IL 61801 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION INQUIRY | 2006年 / 30卷 / 02期

关键词：

video game theory; landscape theory; critical race approaches to technology; postcolonialism; space;

D O I：

10.1177/0196859905285320

中图分类号：

G2 [信息与知识传播];

学科分类号：

05 ; 0503 ;

摘要：

This article coins the term gamescape to offer a way of thinking about the implications of the way in which landscape in video games is actively constructed within a particular ideological framework. The author examines the spatial practices used to construct the gamescape in Tropico and their attendant dangers. The author concludes with a discussion of the theming of this gamescape, and the way in which the trope of tropicalization is used to stabilize Tropico as an "Othered" space.

引用

页码：142 / 162

页数：21