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Playing a Life in Nina Freeman's Automedia Game, Cibele
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 42, Number 2, 2019
- pp. 311-334
- 10.1353/bio.2019.0029
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Abstract:
This essay establishes a framework for studying automedia games—games that have an automedia narrative/disclosure—through an analysis of Nina Freeman's Cibele. Using this framework, I argue that Cibele challenges the misogyny of a gamer culture that has a "vision of digital culture [as] . . . disembodied and immaterial" (Losh), and instead presents the play of video games as embodied, material, affective, and relational.