Threefer
May 1st, 2008 Beth
In revisiting my blogging history I noticed that what seemed to concern me most were the social/cultural implications of videogames. I think this is probably true for most other people who came to this class without a high level of familiarity with the subject. It was easier for me to analyze these aspects than to look at any of the technical or design issues. This is probably why I didn’t make very many comments during the first part of the semester (procrastination also played no small part, of course). I still don’t completely grasp a lot of what we discussed at the beginning of the class, and also the Atari games failed to capture my interest. The comments that I did make towards the beginning of the semester were somewhat perfunctory, but by the end you can see that I was genuinely interested in the things I was blogging about.
After reviewing what I’d blogged I was surprised that some of what I had written actually included some valid points. Going over it reminded me of all of the issues that had interested me during the course of this class and helped guide me towards a topic for my final paper. Other people’s blogs were helpful in this matter as well. Even though I had to force myself to actually complete any bloggin assignments, the exercise was relatively worthwhile. As with most things, you don’t really know what you’re capable of coming up with until you actually sit down and start writing about it. When I was writing the blogging posts I managed to ask myself a lot of questions that I otherwise probably would have never asked, and the assignment forced me to think more critically about the issues we were studying. It was also helpful to interact with and play off the ideas of other students. I probably came to my greatest understanding of videogames as cultural texts through this exercise.
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