hc11: Rune Klevjer Genre Blindness

Genre blindness

Rune Klevjer Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen

There is a curious lack of genre studies in our field, which strikes me as a bit of a missed opportunity. It means that variation, tension and significant detail too easily fall below the radar of academic game studies. It also means that we are less able to bridge the gap between the very specific and the very general, and less able to describe the connections between aesthetic convention and social practice. Continue reading