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Hardware Culture. Tech Demo Modalities in PC Gaming Social Media Channels

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dc.creatorGowanlock, Jordan
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-21T17:45:15Z
dc.date.available2023-09-21T17:45:15Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractThis article concerns the particular forms of tech demos at work in PC hardware culture, a video game subculture where people review and debate the consumer products needed to run video games. As an intensely social online space where emerging forms of hardware are represented, negotiated, and debated, this subculture and its unique forms of media are a contact zone between the hardware underpinnings of video games discussed in video game “platform studies” and the social construction of video games. This article takes a wholistic approach to this culture, noting its persistent gender bias and embeddedness in consumer culture, while also noting points of resistance that bring a media archaeology skepticism to discourses of technological advance and obsolescence.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/20072
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/21287
dc.languageeng
dc.publisheruniversi – Universitätsverlag Siegen
dc.publisher.placeSiegen
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:1619-1641
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNavigationen - Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution Share Alike 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectTech Demoen
dc.subjectPCen
dc.subjectHardware Cultureen
dc.subjectVideo Game Cultureen
dc.subjectOnline Communicationen
dc.subject.ddcddc:302.23
dc.titleHardware Culture. Tech Demo Modalities in PC Gaming Social Media Channelsen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2023-09-21T19:58:49
local.source.epage45
local.source.issue1
local.source.spage32
local.source.volume23

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