Textual Analysis Of Pokemon Go

In this week’s reading, we were introduced to many ways that Pokemon Go can be used by certain individuals for their own good. We were also informed about how Pokemon GO can “capture” our physical selves into doing stuff that we usually don’t. Such as going into dangerous areas and going into businesses we would otherwise never try ourselves.
All of the articles from the readings all have one common theme: How Pokemon Go is controlling our body to achieve their own goals. I usually consider those claims as conspiracy craps from overly paranoid people (One of the articles literally has “Conspiracy” as its title) because those are no news to me. I mean, from the old Orwellian novel to the whole PRISM chaos (I wonder how many people still remember it), people never stop thinking about these, and in the end, it will just die and they will move on to a new platform and repeat the same process over and over again. However, some of these articles did bring up some interesting side of this “Pokemon Hot” phenomenon, and it’s good to look at them in another angle.

Feinberg described how spawning pokemons within an desired area will lure in players to take pictures of the area’s view willingly. This data will then be transferred to agencies such as CIA for investigation. Yuhas brought up the topic of Pokemon Go robbers that used the game to lure players into secluded areas then commit the crime. Tynan had focused on a business point of view and explained how Pokemon Go had brought new costumers into the local business (However, there are also negative feedback about the Pokemon GO players). In all three cases, rather than merely virtual attentions such as Facebook or Twitter, players were physically “captured” into those areas by another individuals. And therefore emphasized the power that Pokemon Go has to influence our daily