{"id":2038,"date":"2015-02-10T14:53:15","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T13:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=2038"},"modified":"2015-02-10T19:32:51","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T18:32:51","slug":"when-books-track-your-behavior-just-like-games-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2015\/02\/10\/when-books-track-your-behavior-just-like-games-do\/","title":{"rendered":"When Books track your Behavior (just like Games do)"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the across-media department<\/em>,\u00a0I find it interesting that readers and writers now worry about their reading behavior\u00a0being tracked by their\u00a0e-readers, as this New York Times article<\/a> attests.<\/p>\n

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It’s interesting because we are by now\u00a0completely used to this in games. Did we give in too easily?<\/p>\n

I have even\u00a0used user\u00a0statistics to argue that games were too long<\/a>, but this kind of tracking\u00a0can also be seen as a dystopian future for books:<\/p>\n

But not everyone in the literary community sees the ability to track reader engagement as a good thing. Francine Prose, writing in the New York Review of Books<\/a>, imagined a not-too-distant future in which \u201cwriters (and their editors) could soon be facing meetings in which the marketing department informs them that 82 percent of readers lost interest in their memoir on page 272. And if they want to be published in the future, whatever happens on that page should never be repeated.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yet\u00a0this describes what game development is already like in the present day, with extensive use of user testing for determining which levels to cut, edit, shorten etc…<\/p>\n

Does this mean\u00a0that we are framing\u00a0video games too much as\u00a0products<\/em>, and too little\u00a0as\u00a0expressive artifacts<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the across-media department,\u00a0I find it interesting that readers and writers now worry about their reading behavior\u00a0being tracked by their\u00a0e-readers, as this New York Times article attests. It’s interesting because we are by now\u00a0completely used to this in games. Did we give in too easily? I have even\u00a0used user\u00a0statistics to argue that games were too … Continue reading “When Books track your Behavior (just like Games do)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}