Quarantine

junho 11, 2020junho 11, 2020

Choosing your character from quarantine: game constructs in the pandemic

Source: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/overwatch-on-switch-is-a-great-way-to-revisit-bliz/1100-6470356/

What have you been doing to ease the tension brought about by social isolation due to the pandemic we are experiencing worldwide? No doubt these are strange times being shared. One of the things that I have been realizing is that audiovisual resources play an important role, a medium that is being explored in many different ways: home movie productions, the massive use of lives, the television itself living from archives, home office news, events being suitable for a virtual environment by videoconference, among others. Among these vast uses of audiovisual in the pandemic, I seek in this post to think about the effects of the pandemic in the audiovisual, turning our gaze to digital games.

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Camila de Ávila
Sou bacharel em Comunicação Social – Publicidade e Propaganda (UFN), especialista em Cultura Digital e Redes Sociais (Unisinos), Mestra em Ciências da Comunicação (Unisinos, bolsista CAPES), e Doutoranda (bolsista CNPq) no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Comunicação da Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), integrante do Grupo de Pesquisa Audiovisualidades e Tecnocultura: Comunicação, Memória e Design (TCAv), do Grupo de Pesquisa ARISE – Arqueologia Interativa e Simulações Eletrônicas (MAE-USP) e do LAD – Laboratório de Artefatos Digitais (UFRGS). Neste site pessoal procuro reunir informações, produção científica e algumas reflexões minhas sobre games, audiovisualidades, interfaces, archaeogaming, arqueologia das mídias, tecnocultura, memória entre outros. Puxe a cadeira, pegue uma cerveja e aperte o play. (:

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English:

I’m a degree in Advertising from (UFN), a specialist in Digital Culture and Social Media (Unisinos), a Master in Communication Sciences (Unisinos), and Ph.D. Student in the Postgraduate Program in Communication Sciences of Unisinos University, member of research group Audiovisualities and Technoculture: Design, Communication, and Memory (TCAv), member of research group ARISE – Interactive Archeology and Electronic Simulations (MAE-USP), and member of LAD – Digital Artefacts Laboratory (UFRGS). In this personal website, you will find information, scientific production, and some reflections on games, audiovisualities, interfaces, archaeogaming, media archeology, technoculture, memory, and other stuff. Pull up a chair, grab a beer, and hit the play. (: