From<i>Counter-Strike</i>to<i>Counter-Statement</i>: using Burke's pentad as a tool for analysing video games

Bourgonjon, Jeroen; Rutten, Kris; Soetaert, Ronald; Valcke, Martin

doi:10.1080/14626268.2011.578577

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“…While a number of models already exist for analyzing video games and gameplay, some using a literary perspective (Bourgonjon, Rutten, Soetaert, & Valcke, 2011; Pérez-Latorre, 2015) while others focus on immersion (Bouvier, Lavoué, & Sehaba, 2014; Ermi & Mäyrä, 2005). The Gamer Response and Decision Framework takes a significantly different approach than any of these models.…”

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The Gamer Response and Decision Framework

Gillern

2016

Simulation & Gaming

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Aim. This article presents the Gamer Response and Decision Framework as a tool for understanding how people interpret, make decisions, and learn during their video gaming experiences. Background. The Gamer Response and Decision Framework combines Rosenblatt’s Reader Response Theory with a variety of other concepts and frameworks related to new literacies, multimodality, learning theory, psychology, and video gaming. This Framework illustrates that every individual has unique experiences, knowledge, skills, agency, self-efficacy, and goals, and these components influence how people interpret and make decisions during video gameplay, which affects how the game unfolds as a unique experience for each gamer. Together these ideas illustrate that no two gamers have the same experience when playing a video game. Understanding video gameplay experiences is important as it represents a dynamic process in which gamers interpret a wide variety of multimodal symbols, experiment and learn in these digital environments, and solve complex problems in order to progress in the game. Conclusion. The Gamer Response and Decision Framework can be used to understand, investigate, and analyze video gameplay experiences and has significant implications for our understanding the thought, decision-making, and learning processes that gamers experience. In the future, researchers in a variety of fields including education, game studies, and game design can use this framework to analyze how people interact with video games.

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The Gamer Response and Decision Framework

Gillern

2016

Simulation & Gaming

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“…To date there has not been much literature on communication research that draws on Kenneth Burke's writings on dramatism, though there are studies that apply Burke's pentad to explore the motives behind speakers' utterances (see, for instance, the analysis of BaoZhu, 2011) and to analyse conflict in video games (Bourgonjon et al, 2011).…”

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Framing analysis, dramatism and terrorism coverage: politician and press responses to the Madrid airport bombing

García-Gurrionero

Canel-Crespo

2016

Communication & Society

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The media and terrorism is an area that has attracted researchers' attention in looking at the strategic dimensions of framing. This paper combines both Entman's framing theory (and his 'cascading activation' model for analysis of framing contests) with a dramatistic approach to rhetoric (the Burkean concepts of the pentad and ratios) to see whether connections can be made that help provide a better understanding of the phenomenon of interactions between politicians' words and media reactions to those words. Speeches given by the Spanish Prime Minister and the official opposition in reaction to a terrorist attack in Madrid are analysed. Our empirical analysis shows a highly fragmented capacity for cultural resonance, and a 'two sided context' with two very different interpretations of the situation. Our findings demonstrate that an appreciation of the dramatistic approach to rhetoric enhances our comprehension of people's motives for adopting or rejecting the different frames used by leaders (politicians and the media) as they seek to frame issues for a range of purposes. They also suggest that combining approaches from the humanities and the social sciences by emphasizing motives as a key variable for the dynamics of framing contests might open up interesting avenues for research on framing as also on the relations between symbols and actions.

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