Humour and Games Season 3, Episode 10: Agata Zarzycka on “Ridiculing the Player: Live-Action Visualisations of Game Experience in YouTube Parody Videos as an Ambivalent Strategy of Self-Fashioning.”

Sep 13

On this episode we speak with Agata Zarzycka on her chapter “Ridiculing the Player: Live-Action Visualisations of Game Experience in YouTube Parody Videos as an Ambivalent Strategy of Self-Fashioning.” We talk about the humorous contrast between casual and serious play, remediated game humour, and clashes between mechanical and social play elements.

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Humour and Games Season 3, Episode 10: Agata Zarzycka on “Ridiculing the Player: Live-Action Visualisations of Game Experience in YouTube Parody Videos as an Ambivalent Strategy of Self-Fashioning.”

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