Category: bcm215

• games and agency

  5–8 minutes

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  October 13, 2021

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  bcm215, games, teaching, thoughts

  Agency and Games (Lecture Notes) The basic definition of agency is: acting with the intention of a particular result.  It is a remarkably simple and important idea, especially when we are dealing with any kind of communication and any type of media. It is important because it recognises the active role of the audience and…

• BCM215 Game Media Industries: Discourse, History and Planning the Digital Artifact

  1–2 minutes

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  March 10, 2020

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  bcm215, education, teaching, UoW

  In this lecture, I expand on the idea of discourse from the previous video and explore the history of video games in terms of the relationship between analogue and digital games.  In the second part of the lecture, I focus on progressing the core learning assessment strategy for this subject and consider ways of planning…

• Media Archaeology

  1–2 minutes

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  February 13, 2020

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  bcm215, teaching, UoW

  Part three of my new lecture series in Game Media Industries is now complete and on YouTube. I really enjoyed putting this one together.