by James Newman
about James Newman
James Newman is a professor of digital media at Bath Spa University. He is the author of numerous books on videogames and gaming cultures including Videogames, Playing with Videogames, Best Before: Videogames, Supersession and Obsolescence, 100 Videogames, and Teaching Videogames. James is a co-founder of the UK’s National Videogame Archive, which is a partnership with the Science Museum, and a curator at The National Videogame Arcade.
Minecraft
Abstract: This chapter examines the many ways in which Minecraft serves as a platform and engine for wide-ranging user-generated content. James Newman argues that to understand Minecraft means appreciating how playing and making are indivisible acts, and that user creativity manifests both as in-game goods and as extra-textual content shared to social media, activities that grow the community and trouble what it means to be a “game.”