@article{Malazita_2015, title={NON-HUMANS AS MEANING-MAKERS: ELIZABETH AS A CO- DESIGNER of BIOSHOCK INFINITE}, volume={5}, url={https://spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.php/spir/article/view/8762}, abstractNote={<div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: ’ArialMT’;">Who participates in the Community of Practice</span><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family: ’ArialMT’;">of the design of digital technology? Cultural studies scholars traditionally focus on human elements as the key actants and meaning-makers in the design of technology. Even Actor-Network Theory, which attributes causal power to non-human material objects, stops short of crediting objects with interpretive power and meaning-making ability. However, recent theoretical approaches coming out of Speculative Realism, New Materialism, and Non-Human Ethnography are posing challenges to this anthropocentric model of meaning-making.</span></p></div></div></div>}, journal={AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research}, author={Malazita, James W.}, year={2015}, month={Oct.} }