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FIRST WEEK

- First possible research topics
- Hybrid x Urgent publishing research
3 images, questions and quotes
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- Text notes

Preparing:
A visual mindmap exploring urgent topics
+ context and conclusion
Medium is the massage reading + notes
Research and formulating a temporary
personal statement on what urgent & hybrid publishing is

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First possible research angles above

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Arjen's class, refresh html & css
recoding of brutalistwebsites.com

First mindmap sketch

SPIRITUAL SCAMMING /
CONTRADICTIONS IN ALTERNATIVE HEALING

* Santo Palo & white sage unethical
* Commercializing indigenous healing
* Daytime Astro tv shows
* Crystal mining
* How western spiritual trends fund
this side with their "healing"
* Holistic medicine risks

SOCIAL MEDIA GENERATED OPINIONS
* social media as public domain panels
* Where were you on 911
* Our thoughts and prayers are with ....
* Facebook bio's / public profiles

ENTERHATEMENT
* 90 day fiance
* cringy (mentally unstable) auditions
on talent shows
* facebook comments / hate comments
* dumpert
* cringe compilations

NATIVE AMERICANS
* no clean water access
* shooting / sniping their wildlife from helicopters
* voting ristrictions
* in a "democratic" "first world" country?

FREE BRITNEY
* celebrities as a public domain / papparazi's etc
* human rights

ANIMAL TRAFFICKING
* whale jails
* animals in the military or as spies

THE PARALELS OF OCCULTISM AND CONSPIRIECYS IN THE RIGHT WING (CORONA PROTESTS) X NAZI'S
* corona right wing protests
* nazi overlap

(POLITICS AND COMMERCIAL MEDIA) HIJACKING GAMES & GAMING INDUSTRY
* covid marketing shifts
* in game presidential campaigns
* BLM / HONG KONG opinions
* twitch & the us amry reqruiting
* blitzchung scandel

"SLAVE" LABOUR IN THE US JAIL SYSTEM
* californian fires and the $1 dollar pay

The darkside of (possibly) hybrid publishing

A possible dark side of hybrid
publications is for example
extremists like Andre Breivik.
Who in order to promote in this
case his manifest performed a
a terrorist attack on a political
party's youth camp

Even though he wasn't probably
thinking within the hybrid
publishing realm, it is a
retranslations of his written
down believes.

Possibly this could be a
research angle in how the
book/manifestos etc can have
a dark side if it as well is
performed or put into action

Another example could be the
Unabomber.

1. Read Chapter 4 from ‘Post Digital Print, the End of Paper’ by Allessandro Ludivico

and design an overview or timeline of all the technologies and inventions mentioned in a way that it expresses and gives insight in the pro’s and con’s between print and digital publishing

Note: I personally decided to print this text as I had to read several papers for practice as well. So the longterm paper and short term digital make sense for me.

I think reading printed material is more decided and reading online texts is more specificated reading where I would look for

Hypnospace Outlaw is a game that is taking place in a web browser format, it has a functioning search bar, websites and involves a lot of reading.

I would consider this format a way of publishing an interactive story, that couldn't take place in similar form or with the same feeling as a book could contribute to.

Splatoon's Inkopolis, in-game community hubs features a message system.

Personally I collected similar messages during the BLM protest which shares visions on serious topics and is an "anonymous" platform. That in limited-time displays these messages around the starting lounge/world before entering a game. This is done by players and text bubbles and on flat screens around the location. This gives a sense of community but in some cases can be a platform to share personal agenda's and opinions unrelated to actions within a game.

This creates a message board/forum like
the atmosphere, a player can like or report a message but there doesn't seem an algorithm to avoid certain messages pre-reporting as all message are drawn with the controller and there is no key board option

Short summary on where I am standing right now.

At this moment I am deciding between 2 topics:
1 spiritual scamming / contradictions in healing
2 politics hijacking gaming realms

I believe both of these come with their own aesthetics in design and symbolism.

Hybridity can for the option 2 be something immersive like a VR space thats hijacked with the information that I collected and answers or visualizes my point or topic.

The urgency lies in the 2th option in the fact that coronavirus asks for new ways to reach out to the public (from commercial or political reasons), this can be done for example by making use of the community creating spaces in games like message boards, waiting lounges, customization options like QR's, streaming platforms, and political agenda within esports. While games are mostly made and sold for money, they often remain within the player & publisher space.

While the urgency of the 1st option lays mostly in the spiritual and alternative healing trends, that is reflected in shops like Sephora selling wicca kits or smudge sticks, urban outfitters selling chakra books etc or influencers with a commercialized spiritual outlook.
I think the urgency also lays more in the western worlds the general search for healing and lack of religion possibly creates rituals and habits that emulate this in a sense of for example healing crystals, ayahuasca ceremonies and such

But based on my last feedback moment, I don't really feel a lot for narrowing down a topic within spiritual scamming to one element, therefore I think 2 might have broader and bigger research "question" as it needs several perspective and actual happenings to be confirmed as I would be making a overall claim that needs elaboration.

A mobile book I own, slightly
similar to a "ketai novel"

Its a book that offers the reader content for phones (most in end of the 00s Japanese fliphone format) like backgrounds, interactive calendars and images, phone menus and such.

Also has qr code to the community / linked platform, and in the printed book it includes previously web-published data of polls, rankings, character information in the form of online profiles. And has some extra fan content like interviews with the illustrator and such.

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A DATABASE OF CONTENT IN HYPERLINK FORM
"POLITICS AND COMPANIES HIJACKING GAMING REALMS / THE NEW ADVERTISING"

The U.S. Army Makes an Awkward Return to Twitch - VICE.COM

The Pentagon Wasn’t Ready for Gamers to Push Back - VICE

The US Army shouts out an anti-Semitic user on Twitch
- THE VERGE

Blitzchung controversy - WIKIPEDIA

The Politics of Online Gaming - Florence Chee
- ACADEMIA.EDU

What to Know About Blizzard, Hong Kong and the
Controversy Over Politics in Esports - TIME

Joe bidden animal crossing - STORE.JOEBIDEN.COM

My old essay >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

10 words based on my collection

1 HIJACKING

2 POLITICAL

3 SOFT SELLING

4 GAMING

5 REALM

6 SHIFTING

7 CONSUMER

8 ESCAPISM

9 INFILTRATION

10 RETREAT

SENTENCE WITH THE 10 KEYWORDS

With pandemic "escapism", there came a higher demand for dissociative "gaming" "realms". This is causing the realm to be "hijacked" by "political" "infiltration" and "soft selling" by corporations. This "upcoming" "shift" will follow the consumer in whatever "realm" they may "retreat"

CONNECTIONS VISUALIZED:

Ursula le Guin’s The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

Reading questions: What insights does it give you on how you can structure or build a narrative?

It's not about the scavenged miscellaneous items thrown together in a "bag/container" but about the story(telling and composition).

two quotes

HJIACKING OF NEUTRAL GAMING REALMS

POLICAL

POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS: BIDEN QR

CODES, DEMOCRATIC PARTY VISITS IN ONLINE SPACE

PROTESTS MESSAGES: BLM, QANAN

US ARMY RECRUITING ON TWITCH (THROUGH SHOOTER GAMES)

MESSAGES BOARDS, WAITING LOUNGES

BLITZCHUNG HONG KONG CONTROVERSY

CHINA GAME BANS: ANIMAL CROSSING OR PLAGUE GAME

RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2 GOOD BAD STATISTIQUE: BASED ON CONTEMPORARY OPINIONS ON HISTORICAL FACTS THE ACTION OF THE PLAYER CHANGES THE STORYLINE, FOR EXAMPLE, KILLING A OLD SLAVE OWNER CAUSES THE PLAYER TO GAIN +GOOD ON THEIR STATISTIQUE, WITH A BAD STATISTIQUE THE GAMEPLAY CHANGES AND THE PLAYER WILL RECEIVE A BOUNTY ON THEIR HEAD AND WILL BE HUNTED FOR BY BOUNTY HUNTERS (GAME TAKES PLACE IN WESTERN / SETTLER TIMES)

CAUSE: Makes unaffiliated (to the tactic) gaming realms political and not neutral, causes sensor shipping. (In rdr2 this is a politically correct manner) however, the others have a downside, as they have effects on this timeline.

CAPITALISTIC

SOFT SELLING: WENDY'S, KFC, FURNITURE STORES ETC

HACKERS SELLING HACKED ITEMS, VILLAGERS, CHARACTERS, SKINS ON EBAY AND OTHER SITES

PRODUCT PLACING: MERCEDES IN MARIO KART

CAUSE: Shift in marketing tactics, whereas tv commercials have their designated block, it now happens

CAUSE: COVID, STAYING AT HOME,
THE USUAL PROMOTION WAYS GET LESS OF A CROWD

How does this relate to your topic and ideas for your publication?

It's not about the individual source layed out / designed, but the composition, the element in the space of the book > in a paragraph > in a chapter > in a book etc.

two keywords

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above cycle

bellow reaction cycle

"POLITICS AND COMPANIES HIJACKING GAMING REALMS / THE NEW ADVERTISING"
ADDITIONAL SOURCES

Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames
by Ian Bogost (possible good introduction like an explanation on
games and persuasiveness)

An interesting video based on Noam Chomsky's theory/analysis of how big media co-operations are essentially business that adjusts their content based on the fact that they are a product, that wants to sell themselves to marketing (companies, brands, ad revenue etc) vs their audience is the readers or viewers. This can be an interesting element to add to my definition of hybrid/urgent publishing

Video on the parasocial issues related to streaming, and the relationship dynamic/power that comes with this. The element of parasocial relationships can be interesting to mention in my texts as they shine a light on the connection of gamers to games and gaming communities and streamers.

A website with a lot of hybrid bookish type of works
or vice versa

"POLITICS AND COMPANIES HIJACKING GAMING REALMS / THE NEW ADVERTISING"
ADDITIONAL SOURCES

Red Dead Redemption 2 Confronts the U.S.’s Racist Past and Lets You Do Something About It

Note: this can element can bring a alternative tone to the bad side of this shift, as in rdr2 a western times game the honor system revolves around choices the player makes. One mission for example is the Jeremiah Compson stranger mission/random encounter, during the mission you find out he was a former slave owner if you then decide to kill him your honor system ranks up higher to the good side. > contemporary "politics in a "historical times" game.

I watched some parts of their streams and read the comment section. Their older streams are highly moderated and barely have comments, there are some videos online of people typing out war crimes or any critique that get banned right in the stream.

The newer streams where 97% per cent critique and don't seem moderated any more

Trying to join us army esports discord, however now it's only possible to join as a serving member

Visual encyclopedias & indexes

Researching the term of compendium and almanac

Taschen often has repetitive series with a set layout and similar designs

Research for Megan's upcoming class

What position of the reader resonates with your project?
To understand my topic and the examples it brings up, to reflect and perceive. Depending on what format the hybridity is going to take, I would like the digital one to be immersive and exist in a "realm" as well and have a certain enveloped feeling. I do want to communicate my "concept" with the elements that I came up with, it's not exactly like my sources weave together but I think by placing them in one publication my "concept" will make sense

And what narrative structure?

This is an example but
I want the text to have
a certain dynamicness
in layout, so a sidebar
for extra notes,
comments etc, or a
contradiction related
to the text, a tweet,
a short fact etc.

And an element for a
possible image, however
this is for now of less
relevance in narrative
structure.

Narrative in the book:
It's very important that
in the introduction
I clarify as best as
I can what the meaning
of the book is, and the
arrangement of texts.
So far I haven't found
a text that collectively
shines a light on this
"hijacking"
After this an element
of psychology, para-
social relationship,
corona gaming popularity
rise etc to make clear
to non-games what the
possible attachment to
games are or the effect
of leisure, they can give.
I will most likely
split up the political
and capitalistic element.
For the chapters i so
far have collected I
think most can be told in
a compendium/encyclopedia
type of layout where
order might not be of
as much relevence as
grouping the right
elements.
A conclusion, and a
bridge to the hybrid
publication form.

How does your reader navigate or engage with your text? & Is this different across the two media? (Physicial/Digital)

Most probably yes, my publication will be more informative in details and connections and my digital will most likely be the most immersive that is maybe something like a conclusion to the stated print texts

"POLITICS AND COMPANIES HIJACKING GAMING REALMS / THE NEW ADVERTISING"
ADDITIONAL SOURCES

I came across more sources of fashion brands that collab with games, my previous ones are mostly the sneaky unaffiliated way like the QR codes.

But in these sources, most focus on the DLC / expansion pack options and the Moschino game to real x real to game construction of the sims collab, while fashion magazines and more formal news website's describe these highly positive, I came across sims fan blogs that were less positive both because of the "sponsored" side but also because the in-game DLC clothing pack didn't look great on their sims and seemed to them like a cash grab.

I think these sources on this Moschino sims collab can together come to a dual construction. And both become formulated to my hijacking claim.

*** NOTE TO SELF: THIS ALSO REMINDS ME TO INCLUDE GAME COMMUNITY COMMENTS AND DISCUSSION (AND SEARCH AND COLLECT THESE ANONYMOUSLY), I CAME ACROSS SEVERAL IN ANIMAL CROSSING FACEBOOK GROUPS AND RANDOM MESSAGE BOARDS AND FORUMS > THESE COMMENTS CAN BE VALUABLE IN ADDING DYNAMIC TO THE MORE FORMAL SOURCES, ALSO INCLUDE TWITCH COMMENTS. ALSO IN THESE HIDDEN COMMUNITIES, I CAN START A MINI DEBATE AND DISCUSSION BRINGING UP A TOPIC SUCH AS MY SOURCES AND HOW THIS HIJACKING IS PERCEIVED OR EVEN NOTICED BY INSIDERS OF PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY PLAY THESE GAMES *** TO BE CONTINUED. ********

Jeremy Scott seeks inspiration from The Sims for latest Moschino collection - HARPERS BAZAAR

Animal Crossing is emerging as a media channel for brands in lockdown - THE DRUM

Why games like Animal Crossing are the new social media of the coronavirus era - Technology review / MIT Technology Review
(analysis by o.a. video game research on why the
rise of animal crossing and the life simulator in
corona times, general explainatory source?

The Quiet Revolution of Animal Crossing - THE ATLANTIC

Not sure if this is super relevant but can connect to the political side on games and the effect and influence of this, Briclyn Forest was a "Tumblr famous" animal crossing new leaf area hacker kinda mid-2010's. She is in the community known as a scammer who makes money decorating islands (self-proclaimed "virtual landscaper")and in previous games made money hacking items using online save editor (not a small fee but 100's. BUT ALSO:
During the area of the New Horizons, in the start she used to have a successful youtube channel with island tours, however, she was exposed to being extremely homophobic, making racist comments, banning anyone bringing up anything gay-related like gay marriage and telling others you can be cured from being gay.
> the social effect is her channels views dropped extremely and some "exposed" video's where made about her. This gaming community political effect can possibly be relevant and also the analysis of her offering high-cost in-game services (that are prohibited by Nintendo's guidelines as well.
For this element, I can't join her private discord as it costs money however I can screenshot her homophobic quotes, transcribe something from an exposed video and implement her fee's menu.

Briclyn Forest || The TOXIC Animal Crossing YOUTUBE VIDEO BY DAT TIRED BOI

Briclyn's Fee list (=individual monetary gain) - forest landscapes on BIG CARTEL

EXPLANATORY ELEMENTS NECESSARY IN THE PUBLICATION

I am aware not everyone is familiar with the games I will mention, or the exact mechanics behind the hijacking. Therefore in the start of bringing up a new element/game, I will personally add a summary Legenda / legend / Glossary

Something along the lines of:

Game title:

Game Publisher:

Year:

Hijacked by:

The original purpose of the mechanic:

How the mechanic is hijacked:

?Hijack effect:?

I got animal crossing at release maybe it's interesting to screenshot my play hours on switch and compare this to the play hours of my 3ds.

Both the 3ds and switch Animal Crossing I got on the European release, while the 3ds one I got in a summer holiday still the hours are less than the switch version, while I think the 3ds is actually better. The effect of it releasing the week school closed definitely had an effect. And it's still my routine to in the morning play for a minute or 20 pre-(online) school, while during full-on "quarantine" I would play each short and long break as well.

Maybe also include the short them dopamine/feeling of accomplishment along with this effect, as it's both distractive but also comes with dopamine effect. > the psychology of short term game accomplishments.

The psychology behind video games during COVID‐19 pandemic: A case study of Animal Crossing: New Horizons - PAPER BY LIN ZHU on
WILEY ONLINE LIBARY

The Psychology of Animal Crossing - PLATINUM PARAGON / PSYCHOLOGY AND VIDEO GAMES BLOG. I have sent the writer of this blog an email as it's a personal blog and she might know some references and might be interested in the publication, and I like her analytic approach with psychology angle to games.

Wendy’s streams Animal Crossing: New Horizon to promote free delivery deal - DOTESPORTS.COM

IKEA Recreates Its 2021 Catalog With Animal Crossing: New Horizons - SILICONERA.com

KFC Opens Animal Crossing: New Horizons Island Giving Away Free Chicken If You Find The Colonel - ANIMAL CROSSING WORLD

5 Reasons why the Moschino x Sims collab SUCKS! -SIMS-ONLINE.COM

Some ‘Animal Crossing’ players in China are using the game to protest government policies, and now the Chinese government is banning the game - BUSINESSINSER.NL

* Because the animal crossing x unaffiliated branded material is close to becoming endless I will probably make a selection but a list.

iNSPO DUMP

A research question:

How can I clarify the hijacking, both political and capitalistic,
of gaming realms that are currently happening, with elements and
texts that don't literally state this?/How can I make and design
the connection between these separated elements, and formulate this
clearly in the design?

This week along with the main housework of the 20 sketches, I updated a lot of new sources and made a "sort & dump" InDesign file where I paste the sources in, for now on theme/situation, to then edit and remove parts of the texts per piece in a more continues flow eventually, also adding notes of what elements need to be described

However, this caused me to question how to sort the sources eventually.

CHAPTER X SOURCES SORTING OPTIONS

EXAMPLE INDEXED ON
SOCIAL ISSUES (ish)

BLM

Hong Kong

the US army

Democrats in-game campaign

Soft selling & Multinationals

High Fashion

Digital Protest

Community voice

COVID x Gaming escapism

Additional sources "last round-ish"

Fortnite Players Throw Tomatoes at In Game Anti-Racism Video - SPORT SKEEDA

'Animal Crossing' and 'Splatoon' Communities Are Embracing Digital Protest - VICE

AOC is making house calls in ‘Animal Crossing.’ Other politicians should do the same - FASTCOMPANY

Coronavirus: Plague Inc. game banned in China
- BBC

SCALPER CAN’T STOP LAUGHING AT PEOPLE BUYING ANIMAL CROSSING AMIIBO CARDS AT 100 TIMES THE COST - NINTENDOSOUP

Thousands of Animal Crossing players are buying Nook Miles Tickets with real money on eBay, among other items - ANIMAL CROSSING WORLD

What Do Virtual Worlds Tell Us About Our Own?
FROM FORTNITE, TO ZOOM, TO SWORD ART ONLINE: LEARNING OUR WAY THROUGH 2020 - SSENSE > possible conclusive ish text

Biden’s Animal Crossing Island Is Lovely But Meaningless > KOTAKU

EXAMPLE INDEXED ON
GAME SPECIFIC

Introduction:
Covid x Gaming escapism
and psychology

Animal Crossing

Fortnite

Splatoon 2

Twitch streaming

The Sims

* probably not a
good order

EXAMPLE INDEXED ON CYCLE

INTRODUCTION = THE
EXISTING CYCLE

1 Covid x Gaming,
psychology, parasocial
relationships

2+3 HIJACKING AND
INFILTRATION SEGMENT
OF THE BOOK

2 POLITICAL

US army twitch

Digital Protests:

- BLM

- Hong Kong

China banning games

Democratic campaign

Red Dead Redemption 2's
honour ranking

3 CAPITALISTIC

Soft selling chapter:

- Moschino x The Sims

- KFC

- Ikea

- Wendy's

- Shortlist with more brands

The monetary gain of the individual:

- ebay

- scalpers

- in-game services by individuals

4 Conclusion: confirmation of my claim, speculative what does the digital realm say about our world

When going for these cycle construction it might be nice to make the introduction of a coloured different paper type.

The separation of colour symbolises the infiltration of the new cycle entering the escapism one.

I guess that the introduction goes a bit more in-depth into the concrete message and the other is more case-specific, so the designed and tactile separation of these could make sense

After making these index constructions my preference goes to the 3th one

Remade my preferred index in my text editing InDesign file, I will stick to this set up for now

TOTAL OF:

31 SOURCES

4 MAIN CYCLE CHAPTERS

26??? SUBCHAPTERS

initially in the "Dump & Sort" file I pasted full sources to then read in the file, however now that I counted out all the sources and subchapters probably mix this up some selected selection is it's about a sub (sub) chapter.

20 SKETCHES SCANS & DIGITAL