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On the Reification of Game Culture Using the Example of Sharing. How Multiple Social Practices Have Turned Into a Single Button

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dc.creatorSchemer-Reinhard, Timo
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-21T15:12:25Z
dc.date.available2022-11-21T15:12:25Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractIn 2013, Sony introduced a new interface element with the PS4 game controller DualShock 4: its own share button. The article uses this button to open up two thematic fields and bring them together. First, the button is discussed as a basic interface element. It is shown that technically mediated processes, which are to be triggered by buttons, must always have a strong conciseness and a high degree of enculturation. Second, sharing is discussed as a changing social practice. It is shown how practices of sharing have changed and differentiated under the conditions of digital net-worked media in general and in the context of play and games in particular. Against this background, the successful introduction of the PS4 share button shows that sharing in the context of digital games has achieved a level of conciseness and enculturation that is necessary for a button to function.en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19006
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.gamescoop.uni-siegen.de/spielformen/index.php/journal/article/view/21/23
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20169
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherMedienwissenschaftliches Seminar Uni Siegen
dc.publisher.placeSiegen
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2748-6001
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSpiel|Formen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
dc.subjectControlleren
dc.subjectInterfaceen
dc.subjectButtonen
dc.subjectSocial Mediaen
dc.subject.ddcddc:794
dc.subject.workPLAYSTATION
dc.titleOn the Reification of Game Culture Using the Example of Sharing. How Multiple Social Practices Have Turned Into a Single Buttonen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
dspace.entity.typeArticleen
local.coverpage2022-11-21T16:30:49
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.gamescoop.uni-siegen.de/spielformen/index.php/journal/article/view/21/23
local.source.epage137
local.source.issueTitleLudomaterialities
local.source.spage117
local.source.volume2
local.subject.wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q188808

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