The potential of America's Army, the Video Game as Civilian-Military Public Sphere

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Thèse

Auteur/contributeur

Li, Zhan (Auteur)

Titre

The potential of America's Army, the Video Game as Civilian-Military Public Sphere

Résumé

The US Army developed multiplayer online First Person Shooter video game, America's Army, was examined as the first instance of an entirely state-produced and directed enterprise leveraging video game popular culture. Specifically, this study is concerned with the potential of the America's Army gamespace as a US civilian-military public sphere of the Information Age, as assessed through Habermasian theories of democratic communication. Interview fieldwork was carried out in several America's Army game communities including those of real-life military personnel, Christian Evangelicals, and hackers. The political activities of these exceptional game communities are considered for the ways they escape and transcend current critical theories of Internet-based public spheres.

Type

Thesis

Université

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Lieu

Cambridge

Date

2003

Nb de pages

111

Langue

Anglais

URL

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39162

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Extra

Accepted: 2007-10-22T19:02:27Z

Référence

Li, Z. (2003). The potential of America’s Army, the Video Game as Civilian-Military Public Sphere [thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology]. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39162

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