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The hybrid ontology of mobile gaming
2011
Convergence. The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
This paper examines the hybrid ontologies that typify networked and mobile location-based games, exploring some of the phenomenological, embodied or somatic aspects of the practices and perceptions of 'mixed reality' game-play. In particular, it focuses on the potential cultural and corporeal effects of mobile gaming since the introduction of the iPhone and subsequent touchscreens, and the specific technosomatic arrangements such devices demand in everyday life. Mobile media and game-play in
doi:10.1177/1354856511414797
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