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Technologized Culture or Cultured Technology? Video Games as a New Form of Storytelling
Technologized Culture or Cultured Technology? Video Games as a New Form of Storytelling

Author(s): Ewa Drab
Subject(s): Anthropology, Media studies, Visual Arts, Communication studies, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure , Sociology of Culture, Sociology of the arts, business, education
Published by: Szkoła Wyższa Psychologii Społecznej
Keywords: popular culture; storytelling; video games; narrative; electronic entertainment

Summary/Abstract: The paper is a brief analysis of the connection between storytelling, the development of technology and video games. The questions asked behind the study are: What is the influence of technological advancements on narratives? What are the new elements which appear in stories of video games? What has been the evolution of storytelling in the field of electronic entertainment? What is the impact of a game genre on video game narratives? What are characteristics of genres which manifest the greatest degree of influence on the in‐game storytelling?

  • Issue Year: 38/2013
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 72-81
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English