The Phenomenology of the “Other” in Computer Game Worlds

Scriven, Paul N.

doi:10.1177/1555412015615294

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“…This, then, seems to allow for the emergence of certain forms of joint attention and joint action to emerge in these virtual environments. While the gamers do not share physical space, we still find some shared spaces of interaction or activity (Scriven, 2018 ). We might also point here to instances of non-gaming shared digital space such as co-authors working in a shared Google Doc together, an audience attending to the shared slides of a presenter on Zoom, or the thread of posts under a YouTube video or a Discord chat.…”

Section: Sociality Embodiment and Technological Mediationmentioning

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Sociality and Embodiment: Online Communication During and After Covid-19

Osler

Zahavi²

2022

Found Sci

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During the Covid-19 pandemic we increasingly turned to technology to stay in touch with our family, friends, and colleagues. Even as lockdowns and restrictions ease many are encouraging us to embrace the replacement of face-to-face encounters with technologically mediated ones. Yet, as philosophers of technology have highlighted, technology can transform the situations we find ourselves in. Drawing insights from the phenomenology of sociality, we consider how digitally-enabled forms of communication and sociality impact our experience of one another. In particular, we draw attention to the way in which our embodied experience of one another is altered when we meet in digital spaces, taking as our focus the themes of perceptual access, intercorporeality, shared space, transitional spaces, and self-presentation. In light of the way in which technological mediation alters various dimensions of our social encounters, we argue that digital encounters constitute their own forms of sociality requiring their own phenomenological analysis. We conclude our paper by raising some broader concerns about the very framework of thinking about digitally and non-digitally mediated social encounters simply in terms of replacement.

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Section: Sociality Embodiment and Technological Mediationmentioning

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Sociality and Embodiment: Online Communication During and After Covid-19

Osler

Zahavi²

2022

Found Sci

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“…The necessary and optional elements of a VR-facilitated virtual world are illustrated in Figure 2. As has been investigated from various perspectives by, for example, Cobián (2008), Crick (2011), Klevjer (2012), Martin (2012), Asanowicz (2014), Keogh (2015), and Scriven (2015), the ways in which such elements of a virtual world may (objectively) manifest themselves to or be (subjectively) intended by a visitor are arguably as rich and diversethough not exactly the same -as the ways that apply with elements of the "real" world. For example, another intelligent social actor (e.g., a non-player character controlled by a game's AI) within the virtual world may reveal itself through its physical form, gestures, facial expressions, and speech; it may aid or obstruct the visitor's exploration of the world; it can amuse, inform, or warn the visitor; and it can be befriended, harmed, remembered, or ignored by the visitor (Bartle, 2004, pp.…”

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The Self-Revelation and Cognition of VR-Facilitated Virtual Worlds: Towards a Phenomenology of Virtual Habitation

Gladden¹

2020

AVANT

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In this text it is argued that immersion in virtual reality (VR) with the aid of contemporary VR equipment may offer access to novel types of virtual worlds that differ qualitatively from the "real" world and from other types of fictional worlds. The text begins by (a) distinguishing between VR systems, virtual environments, and virtual worlds; (b) showing how the virtual worlds facilitated by VR systems resemble and differ from the "virtual worlds" created in one's mind when, for example, reading a novel or watching a film; and (c) identifying necessary and optional elements of a VR-facilitated virtual world. Employing a phenomenological approach that draws on the thought of Ingarden and Norberg-Schulz, it is shown that a visitor to a VR-facilitated virtual world can (and frequently does) shift his or her conscious attention along three different "axes". First, one's attention can move "horizontally" between the media that disclose the virtual world through different senses. Second, one's attention can shift "vertically" between the virtual world's different ontological strata, including its layers of myriad atomic stimuli; distinguishable elements that possess spatiotemporal extension; assemblages of elements that have a context and relations but lack individual meaning; glimpses that build up a lattice of meaning and contribute to one's knowledge of the world; and the virtual world envisioned as a coherent mentally concretized whole. Third, one's attention can shift "interspatially" between the many different overlapping constituent spaces of the virtual world, including its perceptual, concrete, natural, built, identifiable, technological, emotional, social, economic, political, cultural, ecological, and possibility spaces. This triaxial phenomenological framework can shed new light on the rich and diverse ways in which VR-facilitated virtual worlds manifest themselves as emergent wholes constituted within human consciousness; also, it suggests approaches by which visitors might more proactively mentally explore and come to inhabit such virtual worlds.

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The Phenomenology of the “Other” in Computer Game Worlds

Cited by 7 publications

References 24 publications

Sociality and Embodiment: Online Communication During and After Covid-19

Sociality and Embodiment: Online Communication During and After Covid-19

The Self-Revelation and Cognition of VR-Facilitated Virtual Worlds: Towards a Phenomenology of Virtual Habitation

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