And through the mediations of the real, messages are given to us about the real. Human emotions, actions and ideologies are mediated on screen or page. But also in the mediation of the real world, they add other elements they understand to be real. Whether intentional or not, any author, director or game producer invariably recreates the world, be it through descriptive prose, through light captured on camera, or through three-dimensionally modelled environments they mimic reality. This is particularly the case in games where the player controls a character from a ‘first person’ perspective where rather than the screen being a window into another world the screen becomes the eyes of a person within the world.
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Another step beyond that of cinema is the massively expanding media of video games, where the boundaries are pushed even further making the consumer a part of the action, free to explore the world by their own control. This is more obvious in cinema, and even more so in 3 dimensional cinema, where the boundaries set by the words on a page are pushed back to the edges of a screen, which becomes an ever more believable and immersive window to the world of the creator’s making. Even when the book is set in a fantasy setting such as Tolkien’s Middle Earth the detail of the prose turns the book into a window to the world which, despite possibly being in a fanciful or impossible setting, lures the reader into believing that, for that moment, the prose is describing a real world. A medium such as a book, even one that is fictional, tries to recreate the world within its pages. This bizarre but inevitable process goes on in all areas, in speeches and academic texts, to novels, films and video games and can be seen in the creation of popular culture through the process of ‘mediation’ and ‘remediation’.
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The political, moral, and ethical functions the mediation of the War on Terror and 9/11 in the ‘Halo’ series of video games.Īs Timothy Luke points out ‘writing is reading, reading is writing’ how an author interprets the world, influences how he writes about it, and when one reads a text they add to the meaning of the words on the page their own interpretation of what they mean, and this influences how they act, or write based on an interpretation of the interpreted world.