Witney Scholes, Amy Iona (2024) New Media Horizons: Using Animal Crossing: New Horizons to imagine an inclusive model for virtual arts and culture curation. MRes thesis, University of Glasgow.
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This thesis identifies the benefits and limitations of emphasising social inclusion and co-curation between arts and cultural organisations, artists and their audiences or surrounding communities when using virtual reality (VR) technology in a public curatorial context. It does so by gathering robust, original data on recent community- or user-led outputs established within the context of Animal Crossing: New Horizons (Nintendo, 2020) – a home-console video game with highly accessible social elements and opportunities for creative input. The study expands upon extensive existing enquiry into the organisational structure of peer-led, self-policing community groups who organise within the VR space offered by online gaming platforms. It further conducts new analysis of the strategies of in-game groups and ‘real-life’ creative practitioners who have used ACNH to deliver immersive, inclusive experiences for fellow players. By analysing the successes, limitations and managerial hierarchies of groups who operate within the game’s major VR platform, results can be applied to the context of the wider creative industries, and offer an insight on how VR may be successfully implemented by curators and event organisers to sustain meaningful engagement with audiences.
| Item Type: | Thesis (MRes) |
|---|---|
| Qualification Level: | Masters |
| Additional Information: | Due to copyright issues this thesis is not available for viewing. |
| Subjects: | N Fine Arts > N Visual arts (General) For photography, see TR Z Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > ZA Information resources |
| Colleges/Schools: | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > Information Studies |
| Supervisor's Name: | Cook, Professor Sarah and Hughes, Professor Lorna |
| Date of Award: | 2024 |
| Depositing User: | Theses Team |
| Unique ID: | glathesis:2024-84437 |
| Copyright: | Copyright of this thesis is held by the author. |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Jan 2025 08:52 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Jan 2025 08:55 |
| Thesis DOI: | 10.5525/gla.thesis.84437 |
| URI: | https://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/84437 |
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