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We Beat the Cops in GTA: Po(ludic)al Activism in the Age of Video Games

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2017

Abstract

This article explores how individuals reflect on their digital experiences of actualizing fantasies to make sense of their everyday actions, particularly in the context of video gaming. Our study takes a qualitative approach to understanding the context of materializing consumer fantasies, as initially experienced and actualized in video games, and how these fantasies are transformed into material reality, through an investigation of an illustrative case of mass street protests, the 2013 Gezi Protests in Turkey. The findings suggest that digital virtual experiences in video games have obvious manifestations in the material world, as consumers travel on the borders of reality, moving back and forth into the liminoid terrain of the digital virtual, and provide a deeper understanding of how the blurred boundaries between the virtual and material are established in practice.

Publication

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Volume

24

Issue

6

Pages

623-647

Department

College of Business and Management

Comments

This article was published before Dr. Begum Kaplan joined Lynn University.

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