At the same time, many players of casual games show a dedication and skill that is anything but casual. Players need not possess an intimate knowledge of video game history or devote weeks or months to play. These new casual games are now played by men and women, young and old. We used to think that video games were mostly for young men, but with the success of the Nintendo Wii, and the proliferation of games in browsers, cell phone games, and social games video games changed changed fundamentally in the years from 2000 to 2010. Got Game identifies the di! stinct values and traits that define the gamer generation-from an increased appetite for risk to unexpected leadership skills-and reveals management techniques today's leaders can use to bridge the generation gap and unleash gamers' hidden potential. Although many of these changes are positive-such as more open communication and creative problem solving-they have caused a generation gap that frustrates gamers and the boomers who manage them. Though little-noticed, these 90 million rising professionals, through sheer numbers, will inevitably dominate business-and are already changing the rules. Got Game shows how growing up immersed in video games has profoundly shaped the attitudes and abilities of this new generation. Beck and Mitchell Wade, managers who understand and harness this generation's distinct attributes can leap far ahead of their competition.
Provocative new data show that video games have created a new generation of employees and executives-bigger than the baby boom-that will dramatically transform the workplace.
This inter-alia addresses both the inevitable difficulties in developing adequate prior representations of future technology 'users' and the configurational character of design as a combination of existing and novel elements.ĭescription Think video games are kids' stuff? Think again. A richer view of design processes is articulated. These opportunities for users to reinvent systems may feed back into future design. Supplier offerings are inevitably incomplete in relation to the complex, heterogeneous and evolving requirements of users work needs to be done by specific users to incorporate these generic solutions to their particular contexts and practices (domestication). Innovation is not restricted to the prior design of an artefact, but continues as artefacts are implemented and used (innofusion). Drawing upon detailed studies of multimedia experiments, the chapter proposes an evolutionary understanding of ICT system design and development that pays attention to the processes of social learning over the lifecycle of technology design, implementation and use. The shortcomings of this analytical tradition are examined. With its almost exclusive preoccupation with prior technological design, this model (which we refer to as the 'design fallacy') is simplistic and overlooks important opportunities for intervention. Ethnographic studies of users or user participation in design teams were proposed to overcome this.
Technology studies and the user-oriented 'wing' of computer science have largely shared a 'heroic', albeit critical, vision of computer system design: that designers inscribe particular views of the user, user activities and priorities into the artefact, but these are often 'the wrong values', based on an inadequate or misleading view of the user and their requirements. Our examination of the play and experience of this game provides a fuller account of the interrelationships of people to socialising technologies that reaches beyond traditional discourses regarding technology, organizations and work. We argue that SingStar can be thought of as glue technology that assists in crafting and strengthening social linkages amongst players. We consider SingStar in particular as socially rich as it invites us to think about: the wider capabilities of ICTs beyond work-orientated organisations the expansion of conditions of ICT appropriation, extended collaboration practices and the co-production of sociotechnical arrangements in situ. Through two intersecting ethnographies of the use of the Sony PlayStation console game, SingStar, we provide an account of ICT mediated experiences associated with playing the game. In this paper we argue for the consideration of digital games as premier and hallmark examples of socially rich ICTs and demanding the attention of researchers concerned with work orgainzations. This situation persists despite the increasing relocation of work to informal settings beyond the traditional boundaries of the work organization. Embedded within discourses of the enactment of information and communications technologies (ICTs) at work is often a tightly constrained range of legitimate application areas of study, a rather thin concept of user-developer relations and a context of use that precludes simultaneity, multiplicity and informality.
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