This course will examine contemporary trends in theorizing digital media with particular attention given to software and the video game as new media texts. The semester will be divided into two units. The first unit will address theories of code and software. We will discuss the concept of “software studies” in relation to traditional media studies, and investigate how code and software can be examined as aesthetic and political texts. Through an examination of code and semiotics, software and ideology, and critiques of particular software programs, we will lay a theoretical foundation for the investigation of our second unit: video games. Following the rise of the “serious game movement” we will investigate the emergence of political games, persuasive games, simulation games, newsgames, art games, etc., in relation to the theoretical Concepts we developed while analyzing Software and code.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

If anyone's looking to exercise their brain a little (or a lot), try Notpron. Look at the clues in the image and accompanying text to figure out how to get to the next image. The riddles get harder as you get farther along in the sequence (hint: after the first few, there's a lot of source code and HTML manipulation involved). Enjoy!

Posted by Mish A at 12:14 PM

2 comments:

Jason The Lee said...

Good lord Mish I remember this game. Although I think the one I played was different...

Anyways, I remember having to be a crazy hax to get through it...

February 10, 2008 at 11:06 PM
Braxton said...

this game is pure mental evil. It just may be worse than Kittler!

February 11, 2008 at 10:28 PM

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