Archives, Identity and Apparatus: Letâs Play and Videogame Fandom

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848884380_015

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There is still fraught discussion about how best to approach the medium of videogames from an academic perspective, with theorists such as Garry Crawford and James Newman, as well as critics and developers like Anna Anthropy and Brendan Keogh, highlighting the lived gameplay experience as one of the most important resources available to scholars. There has been no adequate discussion in peer-reviewed academia of the Letâs Play (LP) phenomenon, in which players record and commentate on their gameplay and share these recordings online â despite their exponential rise in popularity (three of the top five most popular YouTube channels are LP). My research focuses on LP as both text and metatext, with a particular focus given to the cultures that have risen up around creating, sharing and discussing these videos. My presentation will outline the theoretical underpinning of my work as grounded in ideas of âsuperplayâ and immaterial labour. As well as textual analysis of LP videos, I will also address the ways in which LP video producers and their fans discuss the phenomenon, its origins and appeal; comparing different discursive narratives and themes in order to explore these previously ignored connections between fan production and vicarious engagement with media texts. LP videos provide a fan-produced documentation on the lived experience of gameplay that is rich for academic exploration: showcasing fan critique of these games, they also allow audiences to experience videogames by removing issues of accessibility and cost, as well as acting as archival preservations of videogame texts. In addition, I believe that LP acts as a mediating tool through which the image of âgamerâ is constructed. Thus, I will demonstrate how Letâs Play provides an invaluable resource for understanding videogames as media texts.

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Levelling Up: The Cultural Impact of Contemporary Videogames

ISBN:: 9781848884380

Verleger:: Brill

Print-Publikationsdatum:: 01 Jan 2016

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