Mauro Salvador

The “Surveillance society” is a popular concept that, from classic surveillance studies, moves towards a broader media studies context. The reason of this diffusion lies in the growing spreading of surveillance services and tools in new fields, and in the recurring representation of its dynamics among new media. In this work we will demonstrate how some visual qualities of the videogame experience, coming from both gameplay and framing choices, precisely replicateproper dynamics of the “Surveillance society”. “Shooter” and “Strategic” game genres will be observed, recognizing two different kinds of relation with the diffused contemporary “controller sight”.

In this work we will analyze a corpus of products that are first of all hard to describe. ...

LittleBigPlanet is a video game based on audience content production that transforms players into authors. At first sight it seems nothing more than a classic platform. But when the player completes the story mode, the game is far from being completed...