Jonathan E. Abel, "The New Real: Media and Mimesis in Japan from Stereographs to Emoji" (U of Minnesota Press, 2023)
New Books in East Asian Studies
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The Relationship Between Game and Augmented Reality
The Steins Gate is not either of those things in the sort of way that we think about like a Pokemon go as being augmented reality and it's not which in terms you're just streaming. There are elements of that that are coming through and also that that's a weird fourth wall breaking quality that that has where you get addressed by the character. So I think it's a really interesting example of a lot of different things that are happening in other games spaces, right? Whether they be on screen game spaces or off screen game spaces. Yeah. For me this really became crystallized at one moment when I started getting bored of hitting the the same button again and again to turn the page essentially
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