Nash, K (2015) Simulation games, popular factual media and civic engagement: an audience study of Asylum Exit Australia. Media Culture and Society, 37 (7). 959 - 971. ISSN 0163-4437
Abstract
Asylum: Exit Australia is a first person simulation game that puts the player in the shoes of an asylum seeker. Produced to accompany the television series Go Back to Where You Came From (SBS, 2011) it seeks to make a new kind of intervention in a divisive social debate. This paper considers simulation games in terms of their ability to foster civic engagement. Locating simulation games within the broad field of popular factual media several strands of continuity are identified, while attention is also paid to the specific characteristics of simulation games, particularly the relationship they establish between player and text. Audience responses to Asylum provide insight into the experience of play and the ways in which audiences relate this experience to the asylum seeker debate.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015, Sage Publications. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Media Culture and Society. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Audiences; simulation; civic engagement; documentary; popular media; simulation; video games |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 22 Apr 2015 13:27 |
Last Modified: | 20 Oct 2015 19:23 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0163443715584103 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0163443715584103 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:84098 |