2. CULTURE
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The author gives us three ways to understand the materiality of culture: actor-network theory, cultural studies, and material culture studies (Storey, 2015). After carefully reviewing all three approaches, I see that material cultural studies are the most productive path for critical thinking about my site and its contents. Interacting with the games at Playdium would not be possible without the careful aesthetic design choices behind each one. These include dimensions of graphics, music, animation, and more. For each second I spent playing, these images, what the course text calls material culture, influence and imprint my mind. Material culture involves various sensory features including sound, movement, and storytelling, all of which are stimulated when playing video games (Hasio, 2015). With entertainment centers like Playdium and other arcades, we can see that material culture has earned a fundamental place within video