POST Seminar 3

In the seminar we began discussing a little bit about , what is theory? and how does it differ from a hypothesis, assertion and concept.

There was a bit of unclearness here but I think I got the picture of it.

A hypothesis is something that can be tested and then evaluated if it's correct or not. This is quite common in many papers and theories can somtimes be formed as a hypothesis in research purposes.

An assertion (påstående) is commonly more aggressive and must be true or false.

A concept (begrepp) is the abstract content of a linguistic term.

And finally a theory is a set of propositions

So with that a little more clear, it got easier to point out the theories of in my article. I had previously only found one theory but when I read the text again I now found three theories residing within the article however not explicitly stated. I will go through them here one by one.

• Femenism theory

Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical or philosophical discourse. It aims to understand the nature of gender inequality . It examines women's social roles, experience, interests, and feminist politics in a variety of fields. In my article it focused on femenism in the field of virtual and digital spaces. I would say this is an explanation theory.

• Theory of how to look upon computer games and culture
• 'we should look at video games in culture rather than games as culture'

This theory is used as a base of how to approach the subject. In Gregors taxonomy I would place this as a design and action theory.

• Theory about how digital and virtual worlds are connected
• 'They are not independent'

This is a theory about the relation between digital and virtual spaces and the author uses this theory to prove that things that happend inside the virtual worlds doesn't stay there they are carried on to the "real" digital world and problems that reside within the world can be carried out and dicsussed here. I would place this as a explanatory theory