Betwixt fiction and documentary

Reality Play: Documentary Computer Games Beyond Fact and Fiction

Computer games such as JFK Reloaded and 9-11 Survivor not only aim at an accurate documentation of particular events—such as the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the Twin Towers attack—but also at the playful re-enactment of these traumatic events. In this article, I discuss whether the phrase “documentary computer games” is useful in defining these games. These “docu-games” try to combine ...

Target BACRIM: Blurring Fact and Fiction to Create an Interactive Documentary Game

Target: BACRIM is an immersive and interactive documentary game that exposes the atrocities of Colombia’s paramilitary forces in one of its most violent regions. The producers combine both non-fiction and fiction to create a game that places the user at the heart of the story. Through this docufiction, which is anchored in augmented reality, the user or participant experiences danger firsthand....

A convention or (tacit) agreement betwixt us

The aim of this paper is to show that conventions are sources of tacit agreements. Such agreements are tacit in the sense that they are implicated by what the agents do (or forbear to do) though without that any communication between them be necessary. Conventions are sources of tacit agreements under two substantial assumptions: (1) that there is a salient interpretation, in some contexts, of ...

Documentary relevance and structural hierarchy

THERE is no writer today more closely identified with research into the idea of relevance as operative within the field of documentation than DONALD J. HILLMAN. It is not certain that he sees any real hope for arrival at any sort of technique capable of producing documentsurrogates relevant to real queries-thus excepting those that satisfy queries derived from ‘source-documents’. Yet, in his pa...

Culpability and Commonsense Justice: Lessons Learned Betwixt Murder and Madness