Hermeneutic Inquiry for Digital Games Research

Tanenbaum, Theresa Jean

doi:10.1007/s40869-015-0005-9

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“…We used hermeneutics and content analysis to examine the authorization and authentication interfaces, as well as the contents of EULAs and ToS, in a sample of seven digital game software distribution and gaming platforms and 200 digital games hosted by one of those platforms. Hermeneutics helps better understand how media format and content may be experienced, built on evidence from close reading media and the expertise of an observer (Føllesdal,2001; Gadamer, 2006; Tanenbaum, 2015). Content analysis helps with systematically collecting and organizing evidence of pervasive themes in the mechanisms and content we observed (Cole, 1988; Creswell and Creswell 2017; Downe-Wamboldt, 1992; Hsieh and Shannon 2005; Saldaña, 2015).…”

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The access control double bind: How everyday interfaces regulate access and privacy, enable surveillance, and enforce identity

Gardner,

Tanenbaum

2023

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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Access controls are an inescapable and deceptively mundane requirement for accessing digital applications and platforms. These systems enable and enforce practices related to access, ownership, privacy, and surveillance. Companies use access controls to dictate and enforce terms of use for digital media, platforms, and technologies. The technical implementation of these systems is well understood. However, this paper instead uses digital game software and platforms as a case study to analyze the broader socio-technical, and often inequitable, interactions these elements regulate across software systems. Our sample includes 200 digital games and seven major digital gaming platforms. We combine close reading and content analysis to examine the processes of authentication and authorization within our samples. While the ubiquity of these systems is a given in much academic and popular discourse, our data help empirically ground this understanding and examine how these systems support user legibility and surveillance, and police identities in under-examined ways. We suggest changes to the policies and practices that shape these systems to drive more transparent and equitable design.

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The access control double bind: How everyday interfaces regulate access and privacy, enable surveillance, and enforce identity

Gardner,

Tanenbaum

2023

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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“…Interpretive challenges can be understood as a hermeneutic practice of interpretation. Therefore understanding interpretative challenges is best done by applying hermeneutic theory of interpretation (see Arjoranta 2015;Karhulahti 2012Karhulahti , 2015Tanenbaum 2015;Vella 2015 for applying hermeneutics to games).…”

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Interpretive Challenges in Games

Arjoranta¹

2018

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“…It moves in and out of fashion every few decades, and has been used to analyze books, poems, films, and -most recently -video games [9]. It is a form of "hermeneutic inquiry" -a mode of scholarship that grounds its knowledge claims within the "expert interpretation and judgment" of a "text" [37]. One of the central aspects of this kind of scholarship is that it is performed with as full a disclosure of the perspectives and biases of the research as is possible, and a discussion of the analytical lenses is used to focalize the reading.…”

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The limits of our imagination

Tanenbaum

Pufal

Tanenbaum

2016

Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computing Within Limits

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In this paper we explore how design fiction -an increasingly common and relevant strategy within HCI and the Digital Humanities -can be used to get purchase on the future. In particular, we address how design fictional methods allow researchers to construct arguments about feared or dystopian futures within the context of collapse informatics. Fiction, as a research tool, allows us to do several important things with proximal futures: it allows us to adopt a range of different intellectual commitments and values about the future and explore the consequences of those commitments; it allows us to articulate these consequences to a broader public in a format that is more readily consumed and understood than a research paper; and it allows us to insulate ourselves from the emotional consequences of perceived proximal dystopias by creating space to "play with" and explore alternative visions of the future. We argue that paying attention to how popular culture represents scenarios of collapse can provide insight into how to express and communicate the challenges and potential solutions framed by the LIMITS community to a broad public audience.

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Hermeneutic Inquiry for Digital Games Research

Cited by 8 publications

References 5 publications

The access control double bind: How everyday interfaces regulate access and privacy, enable surveillance, and enforce identity

The access control double bind: How everyday interfaces regulate access and privacy, enable surveillance, and enforce identity

Interpretive Challenges in Games

The limits of our imagination

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