An Approach to the Ethics of Archaeogaming

Virtual worlds are human worlds thus ethical places/spaces. Through an authethnography of play, I try to surface and contextualize some of what I see as the ethical issues that archaeogaming presents, which I frame as provocations for further discussion. What defines 'archaeogaming' is our...

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Main Author: Shawn Graham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of York 2020-05-01
Series:Internet Archaeology
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Online Access:https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue55/2/index.html
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description Virtual worlds are human worlds thus ethical places/spaces. Through an authethnography of play, I try to surface and contextualize some of what I see as the ethical issues that archaeogaming presents, which I frame as provocations for further discussion. What defines 'archaeogaming' is our identity as archaeologists, and so the ethics of archaeogaming must be the ethics of archaeology; ethics are not integral to a game but emerge at the intersection of play and design.
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archaeogaming
ethics
minecraft
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digital public archaeology
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title An Approach to the Ethics of Archaeogaming
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title_short An Approach to the Ethics of Archaeogaming
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ethics
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play
digital public archaeology
archaeology
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