id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_z3z5ec7cizhlfb262b5in6ebpu Joost Raessens Playful Identities, or the Ludification of Culture 2006.0 6 .pdf application/pdf 2514 194 59 computer games are currently transforming the understanding of and the actual construction of personal and cultural identities. MIT Program in Comparative Media Studies, directed by Henry Jenkins, had organized a national conference, Computer and Video Games Come of Age, in cooperation with the International Digital Software Association.3 These two theorists, Aarseth main aims of our University Program, New Media and Digital Culture, is to investigate to what extent and in what ways computer games are currently transforming our In the Aarseth-Jenkins debate, Jenkins linked the difficulties inherent to a definition of game studies to the question of what the priority of research should be: "Should Game Studies (Raessens & Goldstein, 2005), we distinguished (at least) six different Goldstein (Eds.), Handbook of computer game studies (pp. Joost Raessens is associate professor of new media studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. ./cache/work_z3z5ec7cizhlfb262b5in6ebpu.pdf ./txt/work_z3z5ec7cizhlfb262b5in6ebpu.txt