Haptic ambience: Ambient play, the haptic effect and co-presence in<i>Pokémon GO</i>

Apperley, Thomas; Moore, Kyle

doi:10.1177/1354856518811017

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“…All of these virtual objects offer different opportunities to gain competitive advantage within the game, and to engage with the physical environment and other players through the game. Combined, these engagements inform how playing Pokémon Go “establishes a dynamic multi-layered mode of connected and disconnected co-presence in public spaces” (Apperley and Moore, 2019, p. 12). In light of these characteristics, Pokémon Go is seen by many as “not just a casual mobile game, for while we might play it in the midst of other daily activities, it also explicitly intervenes with and modifies those activities and relations—sometimes in positive ways, sometimes negative” (Hjorth and Richardson, 2017, p. 5, emphasis added).…”

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“…In the first instance, Liao (2018, p. 133, 135) suggests that “one key feature that distinguishes augmented reality from other media is the extent to which it interacts with the physical artifacts that exist in public space and place.” Augmented reality causes “the digital” to be layered onto “the real”, which in turn creates opportunities for power to be created and reproduced in the space that emerges between each layer (what Lemos, 2011, p. 278 describes as “information territorialization”). Augmented reality games like Pokémon Go create situations of “multi-layered co-presence, where players are not just experiencing their own play, but potentially also the simultaneous public performance of play by others” (Apperley and Moore, 2019, p. 14). This leads to increasingly pervasive, fluid, and thus volatile configurations of territory that are realized through the digital.…”

Section: Theorizing Digital Expressions Of Territorial Powermentioning

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The territoriality of teams: Assembling power through the playing of Pokémon Go

Woods

2020

Mobile Media & Communication

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This paper explores how the playing of Pokémon Go can cause power to be assembled, and team-based expressions of territoriality to manifest. By playing the game, players become embedded within digital assemblages of power, which they reproduce through their interactions with other players, game features, and public spaces. When digital assets—such as gyms—are indexed to public spaces, players work together in teams to compete for digital ownership, and control, of these assets. In turn, this leads to the forging of a team-based sense of territoriality that is pervasive, and maximized by consolidating the power of the assemblage. Qualitative data are presented to empirically explore how playing Pokémon Go in Singapore can encourage players to forge a team-based sense of territoriality, which in turn results in the (dis)assembling of power. To conclude, I call for closer consideration of the implications of digital assemblages of power for everyday life.

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The territoriality of teams: Assembling power through the playing of Pokémon Go

Woods

2020

Mobile Media & Communication

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“…The success of Pokémon Go can largely be attributed to the fact that the game brings the Pokémon franchise into the everyday worlds of its players through its augmented reality application. The word “Pokémon” is a portmanteau of “pocket monster.” In itself, this speaks to the novelty and mobility of the idea, as it is “both private and always at hand to provide access to a portable secret fantasy world of childhood that ‘bisects’ the everyday” (Apperley & Moore, 2019, p. 12). It can be seen to parallel the encounters with difference that are an integral part of tourism, albeit on an “everyday” level.…”

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Experiencing the unfamiliar through mobile gameplay: Pokémon go as augmented tourism

Woods

2020

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While tourism involves encountering the unfamiliar, digital technologies play an increasingly prominent role in mediating these encounters. Augmented reality applications can cause encounters with the unfamiliar to become relational constructs, as difference is mediated through the familiar interface of the digital. Augmented tourism is a concept through which these mediations can be understood. Specifically, augmented reality mobile games bring people and places together through one, integrative, experience of the world. When played in unfamiliar environments, these games provide an interpretive lens that can shape the tourist experience. I draw on an analysis of 22 in‐depth interviews with Singapore‐based players of Pokémon Go to explore how the game enables them to navigate and memorialise unfamiliar environments, and to connect with other people through common experiences of play. Combined, these actions constitute a form of augmented tourism that is defined by playful and interactive, but also homogenising, encounters with people and place.

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“…As Apperley and Moore (2019) argue, the camera embedded in Pokémon Go, and photographic potential of capturing Pokémon in the physical world, added important dimensions of sociality and shareability as well. In social terms, capturing Pokémon in unexpected physical locations-at times with knowing, and sometimes unknowing, other participants-added creative, remixable and humorous levels to the game.…”

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The familiar places we dream about: Pokémon GO and nostalgia during a global pandemic

Peaty

Leaver

2020

Australasian Journal of Popular Culture

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This article explores the impact of COVID-19 on the developers and players of Pokémon GO through the lens of nostalgia. Focusing on the game as a nostalgic text that works to remediate physical and social spaces, we examine how gameplay has changed in response to players’ restricted mobility and isolation during the 2020 global pandemic. The release of Pokémon GO in 2016 was a watershed moment in the development of mobile augmented reality games. Building on a popular culture franchise familiar to many, it fused cutting-edge technology with memories of the past. Previous studies suggest playing Pokémon GO is associated with dreamlike nostalgia for childhood adventures. But these experiences were intimately linked with physical movement, proximity to others, and the exploration of outdoor spaces. Confined to their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, once free-roaming players are now being encouraged to embrace isolated, sedentary play. There is an additional layer of nostalgia in operation as players and developers alike reminisce about socializing and playing in the world outside the home. This article therefore explores how Pokémon GO mediates player experiences and unpacks its role in negotiating both memory and contemporary societal trauma.

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Haptic ambience: Ambient play, the haptic effect and co-presence inPokémon GO

Cited by 13 publications

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The territoriality of teams: Assembling power through the playing of Pokémon Go

The territoriality of teams: Assembling power through the playing of Pokémon Go

Experiencing the unfamiliar through mobile gameplay: Pokémon go as augmented tourism

The familiar places we dream about: Pokémon GO and nostalgia during a global pandemic

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