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Playing at bullying : the postmodern ethic of Bully (Canis Canem edit) Bradford, Clare 2009, Playing at bullying : the postmodern ethic of Bully (Canis Canem edit), Digital culture and education, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 67-82. Title Playing at bullying : the postmodern ethic of Bully (Canis Canem edit) Formatted title Playing at bullying : the postmodern ethic of Bully (Canis Canem edit) Author(s) Bradford, Clare Journal name Digital culture and education Volume number 1 Issue number 1 Start page 67 End page 82 Publisher Digital Culture and Education ( DCE) Place of publication [Australia] Publication date 2009-05-15 ISSN 1836-8301 Keyword(s) youth video games postmodernism ethics ideologies Summary This essay discusses Bully (Canis Canem Edit), considering the game's antecedents (narratives involving young people in school settings) and the features which set it apart from other teen texts. It discusses the controversy surrounding the game and comes to the conclusion that the principal reason for unease on the part of parents and educational authorities is that Bully's postmodernist ethic evades the binaries of liberal humanism and calls into question the foundations on which conventional ethical systems are based. Tbe paper considers several episodes from the game to flesh out its arguments about how the game manifests features of postmodernist textuality in its propensity for simultaneously deploying and interrogating references to historical and contemporary cultural practices. Language eng Field of Research 200102 Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies Socio Economic Objective 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2009, Digital Culture and Education Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30021450 Document type: Journal Article Collection: School of Communication and Creative Arts Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 18 Dec 2009, 14:04:18 EST Wed, 06 Jan 2010, 08:55:08 EST Wed, 06 Jan 2010, 08:56:16 EST Wed, 06 Jan 2010, 08:57:03 EST Mon, 29 Apr 2013, 14:50:05 EST Filtered Full Access Statistics: 396 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 18 Dec 2009, 14:04:14 EST

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