“Facebook is a unique platform for recruitment and amplification,”
There have been a lot of instances of Facebook being involved in different conspiracies. The algorithms that Facebook use have been abused to manipulate political elections and events.
How do you know? How does the game tell you these things? I think you’ll be surprised by how much you’ll be able to determine.
I think this is a very interesting point because out of all the games that I've played that have not had definitive backstories, I've never really thought about thinking about what the history of the game might be. I oftentimes just accept what is happening and just play the game for what it is.
A second identity that is at stake in playing a game like Arcanmn is a real-world identity:
I thought that this section was interesting because I've heard some different perspectives about how people like to represent themselves in games. Some people like to pick a character that represents themselves, but others like to pick someone that does not represent themselves, but rather a character they would like to work with in the game.
But with a videogame, we learn the rules mostly by experimentation.
In order to play video games, there is a lot of experimentation to figure out the best possible solution to a game. For example in chess, you are looking at the board and testing each possible move and its outcome in your head, in order to play the best possible move.
Think of a chess match in which neither p layer a dvances a pawn to the far side of the board, a n d the rule for pawn pro-motion thus never comes into play.
I think comparing chess to video games is a great way to show what constraints and states are. The game of chess is very similar to the structure of other video games and comparing the two helped to understand some of the concepts and structures that we see in video games.
Human beings can respond to both digital and physical phenomena in similar ways aswell.
This reminds me of how bullying can occur digitally but might not occur physically. The effects are still the same. Bullying physically or digitally will still produce the same outcome, but they are just separated by the digital or physical world.
I heardmany descriptions of how unexpectedly deep and authentic these connections couldbecome.
This is interesting because many people do go online seeking forms of communities or online relationships with others. However, they are never expecting to find anything authentic. This shows that it is somewhat easy to develop deeper connections online that in person.