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| Title: | The potential of America's Army, the video game as civilian-military public sphere |
| Authors: | Li, Zhan, 1979- |
| Advisor: | Henry Jenkins. |
| Department: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Comparative Media Studies. |
| Other contributors: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Comparative Media Studies. |
| Keywords: | Comparative Media Studies. |
| Issue Date: | 2004 |
| Publisher: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Abstract: | The US Army developed multiplayer online First Person Shooter video game, America's Army, was examined as the first instance of an entirely state-produced and directed enterprise leveraging video game popular culture. Specifically, this study is concerned with the potential of the America's Army gamespace as a US civilian-military public sphere of the Information Age, as assessed through Habermasian theories of democratic communication. Interview fieldwork was carried out in several America's Army game communities including those of real-life military personnel, Christian Evangelicals, and hackers. The political activities of these exceptional game communities are considered for the ways they escape and transcend current critical theories of Internet-based public spheres. |
| Description: | Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Comparative Media Studies, February 2004.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 137-143). |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39162 |
| Appears in Collections: | Comparative Media Studies - Master's degree
Comparative Media Studies - Master's degree
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