Week Six:A radical digital culture? Doing things with videogames

Outline: - Anna Anthropy and zinesters - “Gamers”, identity and labels - Expanding the possibilities for videogames - Procedural rhetoric

Molleindustria

Ian Bogost, Persuasive Games

Aristotle and rhetoric

Enthymeme

=

An unstated clause of a syllogism

1988 Vice-Presidential debate - Dan Quayle v. Lloyd Bentsen

“You are no Jack Kennedy”

=1. Jack Kennedy was a great man (stated)

2. Dan Quale is not a great man (unstated)

3. Therefore, Quale is no Kennedy (stated)

The Australian Tipper

argument: that tipping in the US is socially fraught for Australian

tourists

The Australian Tipperrules:

1. players do not know how much money they have

2. they are presented with a service that has been performed for them

3. they have two options: tip lots, or don’t tip

possible outcomes:

player is brokeor

everyone hates player