Global Game Utopia

Global Game Utopia

Date: 
02.02.2003 16:00
Edition: 
2003
Format: 
Panel
Location: 
Auditorium

Computer games have increasing importance for both, the behaviour of playing children and teenagers as well as the development and analysis of social, political and military behavioral science models. Exemplary for this influence are games like SimCity, which changed urban development, or US Army’s new recruiting game, designed to demonstrate teenagers the real conditions of soldiership and close combat. Do these games pretend to show how our functional and ethical behaviour may look like in future? And will the Weltanschauung - implemented in these games - have impact on our future reality? In this conference sociologists, media scientist and artists present global utopia as it Is contained in computer games and discuss Its relation to reality.

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