Co-Creation and the Distributed Authorship of Video Games

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Author(s): Stephanie C. Jennings (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 24
Source title: Examining the Evolution of Gaming and Its Impact on Social, Cultural, and Political Perspectives
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Keri Duncan Valentine (West Virginia University, USA)and Lucas John Jensen (Georgia Southern University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0261-6.ch006

Keywords: Digital Media / Gaming / Information Science Reference / Media & Communications

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This chapter reconceptualizes the authorship of video games through the development of a theory of distributed authorship. It defines distributed authorship as the interplay of negotiated capacities of a number of actors (including but not limited to developers, publishers, and players) to create the content, structures, form, and affordances of video game works. However, the theory does not assume that these actors always work together collaboratively or that capacities for authorship are shared equally among them. Rather, distributed authorship understands the authorship of video games as a relationship of power—the power to create, shape, and influence video game works.

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