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Record W2319440447 · doi:10.1386/jgvw.6.3.205_1

Cyber Narrative and the Gaming Cyborg

2014· article· en· W2319440447 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicDigital Games and Media
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNarrativePleasureAgency (philosophy)Game studiesCyberspaceRepresentation (politics)AestheticsVirtual worldVideo gameMetaverseComputer scienceVirtual realityHuman–computer interactionThe InternetPsychologyWorld Wide WebArtMultimediaSociologyArtificial intelligenceLiteraturePolitics

Abstract

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Abstract The notion of the cyborg is a useful tool for examining the relations between gamers and gaming environments, and the construction of narrative in gaming contexts. I will discuss the idea of the gamer’s sense of self, projected into the game-world exploring the extended mind theory and proprioception. Following that I will address the construction of narrative with algorithmic (computational) interaction with the database and procedural narrative in the sense of how the gamer relates to both the real and virtual world. According to Donna Haraway in her book, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, ‘a cyborg is a hybrid creature, composed of organism and machine’ (1991: 1). Gabriella Giannachi embellishes Haraway’s definition in that the cyborg is ‘able to bridge the gap between the real and representation, between social reality and fiction’ (2004: 47). I intend to demonstrate that the material gamer interfaces with the database/game/internet and the projected identity/presence/proprioception of the gamer becomes part of the virtual world. The narrative is virtual and interaction with the algorithms (rules) provides a sense of agency within the game world. Procedural narrative is created through an algorithmic interface with a database. The human is subsumed into the technological. Human interaction becomes algorithmic. The pleasure of augmentation is seductive.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.940
Threshold uncertainty score0.240

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.275
Teacher spread0.265 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it