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.
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页码：142 / 162
页数：21
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