Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-2009
Abstract
Instead of being a world apart from material reality, the virtual world Second Life is intertwined with larger trends associated with Web 2.0 and the "eversion" of cyberspace. A number of recent scholars have begun to explore the relation of textual studies and video games. Games represent sophisticated ideas of what it means to enable on a digital platform the dynamic, networked, collaborative construction of the social text, broadly conceived. A game space is not an infinite virtual reality, but is instead a possibility space in multiple dimensions. Videogames offer humanists serious models for potential networked events of their own—embodied, intermediated, and out in the world.
Recommended Citation
Steven E. Jones, “Second Life, Video Games, and the Social Text,” PMLA 124:1 (January 2009), 264-72.
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