Wednesday, 29 January 2014
Information Creation and Manipulation
What types of information are you producing when you play?
For now, playing Minecraft is still a learning process for me. BUT I'm glad that I am treating it as a learning environment and connecting the concepts I learn in class and readings to what I am doing in the game. I will be a noob no more in no time ;)
What are the targets of these messages?
I do not create that much information on Minecraft (yet) just because i'm not sure how to use the commands properly. As of now I am a prosumer, consuming the game by participating in the game and in turn producing things by building or crafting things.
Minecraft avatars aren't as important as avatars in other virtual worlds like second life where you can be anything and everything you want others to see you as. Minecraft is much simpler, my avatar is just a male in an elf suit. But i have seen other users whose avatars are wearing different 'skins'; superhero, animals, etc. I set my own minecraft avatar to be an elf just because I didn't have a specific preference of what I wanted to be (also it isn't that important) and I just wanted to look different in the game. However, as Kohler et al says "the emergence of the Internet has facilitated unique and inventive opportunities to capitalize on users' innovative potential and knowledge, resulting in what has been termed virtual customer integration" (Kohler et al, 396), there is an importance to the skins in some level that some people will invest their time and money making their avatars the representative of who they want to be and that would be one of the main messages that they produce when they play.
In my case, the most information I produce when I play is building and crafting things. For example, if I dig a mine that was never there beforehand, the message that I'm producing is that there is a mine there NOW that I've dug it. Kohler also says that open innovation and virtual worlds and advances the perspective that virtual world platforms for an interactive new product development process.
Minecraft avatars aren't as important as avatars in other virtual worlds like second life where you can be anything and everything you want others to see you as. Minecraft is much simpler, my avatar is just a male in an elf suit. But i have seen other users whose avatars are wearing different 'skins'; superhero, animals, etc. I set my own minecraft avatar to be an elf just because I didn't have a specific preference of what I wanted to be (also it isn't that important) and I just wanted to look different in the game. However, as Kohler et al says "the emergence of the Internet has facilitated unique and inventive opportunities to capitalize on users' innovative potential and knowledge, resulting in what has been termed virtual customer integration" (Kohler et al, 396), there is an importance to the skins in some level that some people will invest their time and money making their avatars the representative of who they want to be and that would be one of the main messages that they produce when they play.
In my case, the most information I produce when I play is building and crafting things. For example, if I dig a mine that was never there beforehand, the message that I'm producing is that there is a mine there NOW that I've dug it. Kohler also says that open innovation and virtual worlds and advances the perspective that virtual world platforms for an interactive new product development process.
There is also some kind of remix in the way I play I guess in a creative practice, in the best way I can I am trying to make my creations nice looking and entertaining at the same time.
Whelan and Freund defines remix as marks that venerable and longstanding creative practices, embeds them in a particular aesthetic, social and technological conjuncture.
For now, playing Minecraft is still a learning process for me. BUT I'm glad that I am treating it as a learning environment and connecting the concepts I learn in class and readings to what I am doing in the game. I will be a noob no more in no time ;)
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- Nikka
- Born in '92. Annoyingly a morning person. Communications, Culture and Information Technology and Professional Writing double major. Always moving on.
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