Thursday, January 21, 2010
Response to Jenkins
What I found interesting in the reading by Jenkins (and I think JV will agree with me) was the positive perception of gamers. Unfortunately, most gamers, have the stereotypical image projected onto them of being male, overweight, living in mom and dad’s house and are seen as anti-social because of the time and energy they put into the games. With the newer consoles’ availability to connect to other gamers and PC MMOs creating communities where users have to work together to achieve a goal a whole new idea of what a gamer is comes to light. I think that Beck and Wade see gaming as an asset to someone’s skills in the real world, like risk-taking and teamwork, is awesome.
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I do agree, Leigh. AS a gamer for 22 years, I've had the opportunity to play not only many different types of games, but also with many different types of gamers.
ReplyDeleteOnce upon a time, I played MMOs (yes, World of Warcraft was one such game). People I played with were men and women of all ages, some husbands and wives stationed over seas, fathers and sons, and so on.
I also read an article on Kotaku (it was some time ago, so I'd have to really dig for the link) that said future employers may consider leading a guild (a large organization in an MMO) as a good asset for hiring. It takes a lot of cooperation and skill to put 40 people together to take down monsters in an MMO, so it makes sense.
Just my two cents.
~JV
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ReplyDeleteI love MMORPGs in other words "Massively multiplayer online role-playing games"
ReplyDeleteI think I've heard of some businesses where the employees have played online multiplayer games as group exercises... or did I see that on the Office?
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