Governmentality, Neoliberalism, and the Digital Game

Baerg, Andrew

doi:10.1353/sym.2009.0028

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“…Based within political economic practices emphasising free markets, free trade and privatisation, neoliberalism advances a view of individual well-being as enhanced and progressed through an ethos of competitive individualism, entrepreneurship, freedoms and skills (e.g. Baerg, 2009). As Gill and Scharff (2013) suggest, neoliberalism can be understood as a "mobile, calculated technology for governing subjects as self-managing, autonomous and enterprising" (p. 5).…”

Section: Pride and Sns In A Neoliberal Contextmentioning

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Sharenting: Pride, affect and the day‐to‐day politics of digital mothering

Capdevila

Dann

Locke

et al. 2019

Social & Personality Psych

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The coming together of parenting and routine posting on social networking sites has become a visible and recognisable theme, and the term “sharenting” has found a place in everyday talk to describe some forms of parental digital sharing practices. However, while social media has undoubtedly provided a space for parents to share experiences and receive support around parenting, sharenting remains a contestable issue. Thus, one reading of sharenting would be as a display of good parenting as mothers “show off” their children as a marker of success. However, the term also can be used pejoratively to describe parental oversharing of child‐focused images and content. In this paper, we explore the practice of sharenting in terms of pride, affect and the politics of digital mothering in a neoliberal context to conclude that sharenting can be best understood as a complex affective and intersectional accomplishment that produces motherhood and family as communicative activities within digital social practices.

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Section: Pride and Sns In A Neoliberal Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sharenting: Pride, affect and the day‐to‐day politics of digital mothering

Capdevila

Dann

Locke

et al. 2019

Social & Personality Psych

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“…This notion that games should maximize the number of possible gameplay paths is prevalent in the game design community and has heavily influenced the development of "sandbox" games, like Minecraft, where players have the "tools to create their own environment and goals" (Williams, 2010, p. 460). Baerg (2009) argues that video games that emphasize player choice function "like the neoliberal free market economy in offering choices to players who can use its resources to further their own interests within the parameters of the game's rules" (p. 119). His concern is that this "naturalizes a neoliberal approach to decision making in daily life" (Baerg, 2009, p. 119) at the expense of other conceptions of agency.…”

Section: Agency In Video Gamesmentioning

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Crafting worldly spaces: The role of the educator in shaping student agency in Minecraft

Lincenberg

Eynon²

2021

Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies

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“…Video games, in general, are associated with neoliberalism and capitalism by commentators who claim an intrinsic connect with colonialism and empire. According to Andrew Baerg (2009), ''the digital game, and its processes of computational representation, enacts rules driving a symbolic system that represents processes at work in neoliberalism'' (p. 119). He invokes Ian Bogost's (2010) concept of procedural rhetoric as ''the computer's ability to process, calculate, and manipulate massive numbers of rule-based symbols'' (Baerg, 2009, p. 119) to enable the shaping of ''our understanding of the world around us [ .…”

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Playing Subaltern

Mukherjee

2016

Games and Culture

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The postcolonial has still remained on the margins of Game Studies, which has now incorporated at length, contemporary debates of race, gender, and other areas that challenge the canon. It is difficult to believe, however, that it has not defined the way in which video games are perceived; the effect, it can be argued, is subtle. For the millions of Indians playing games such as Empire: Total War or East India Company, their encounter with colonial history is direct and unavoidable, especially given the pervasiveness of postcolonial reactions in everything from academia to day-today conversation around them. The ways in which games construct conceptions of spatiality, political systems, ethics, and society are often deeply imbued with a notion of the colonial and therefore also with the questioning of colonialism. This article aims to examine the complexities that the postcolonial undertones in video games bring to the ways in which we read them.

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Governmentality, Neoliberalism, and the Digital Game

Cited by 24 publications

References 17 publications

Sharenting: Pride, affect and the day‐to‐day politics of digital mothering

Sharenting: Pride, affect and the day‐to‐day politics of digital mothering

Crafting worldly spaces: The role of the educator in shaping student agency in Minecraft

Playing Subaltern

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