http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 https://escholarship.org/uc/ucr_universitywriting_oapdeposits/rss Recent eScholarship items from Department of University Writing Open Access Policy Deposits Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:40:09 +0000 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5r33m869 This article explores the networked, affective, and embodied gameplay and potential of Niantic’s 2016 augmented reality smartphone game, Pokémon Go. Following affective critique in videogame and digital studies (Anable, Hayles, et al.,) and literary notions of the “grotesque and carnivalesque” (Bakhtin), I emphasize the important and often overlooked role of embodiment in hypertext, hypermedia, and digital smartphone technology. By framing Pokémon Go in relation to Shelley Jackson’s 1995 hypertext, Patchwork Girl, I identify a specific transformative moment that reactivates Bakhtin’s carnivalesque through the embodied gameplay of the digital mobile network. Pokémon Go’s digitally mediated gameplay demonstrates how mobile gaming, and perhaps all mobile computing, in general, serves to further expand the transformative implications and uncertain possibilities of embodiment as the digital takes on new forms. This observable, transductive transformation, I argue, demonstrates a reactivation... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5r33m869 Thu, 31 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Palmer, Grant https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7847-6939