The Rhetoric of Video Games
- Mortgage made players face the dilemma of paying off mortgage to get bigger house or decorating the one you have currently
- Player gets to see banker get more rich from you giving them money
- Tom Nook models the redistribution of wealth
Topic 2:
- Video game players have their own culture and values
- Animal crossing community where you can get adopted by older players and be given a gift!
- When children play they constantly renegotiate their relationship with a possibility space
- Skilled orators employed techniques like motivational business speakers in ancienty greeks, they were known as sophists and were frequently critiqued
Procedural Rhetoric
- The idea of using processes persuasively, similarly to how verbal and visual use those forms of media persuasively
- Isn’t this just all art?
- Modeling allows for aspects of experience to be questioned
- Videogame criticizing McDonalds by incorporating moral choices in order for the mcdonalds company to survive
- Mange groups through PR and lobbying
- Ideology came from napoleon calling criticizers ideologues
- America’s Army recruiting games
- Medical malpractice game:
- Have to deal with doctors leaving the system
- The game Bully represents the social system of high school, more subtly expressive than the mcdonald’s game
- Video games a kind of literacy that lets us critique the systems we live in
