Immersive Gameplay

Evan Torner is assistant professor of German studies at the University of Cincinnati, where he also serves as undergraduate director of German studies and the director of the UC game lab. He is co-founder and an editor of the journal Analog Game Studies. His fields of expertise include East German genre cinema, German film history, critical race theory, science fiction, role-playing game studies, Nordic larp, cultural criticism, electronic music and second-language pedagogy. William J. White, an associate professor of communication arts & sciences at Penn State Altoona, teaches speech and mass media courses. His research interests include communication theory, the rhetoric of science, science fiction and games as participatory culture. He lives in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Foreword by Zach Waggoner      IntroductionEvan Torner and William J. White      PART 1 : MIND BREACHES ROLE-PLAYINGFirst Person Audience and the Art of Painful Role-PlayingMarkus Montola and Jussi Holopainen      Jungian Theory and Immersion in Role-Playing GamesSarah Lynne Bowman      Circles and Frames: The Games Social Scientists PlayNathan Hook      PART 2 : ROLE-PLAYING BREACHES REALITYRole-Playing Communities, Cultures of Play and the Discourse of ImmersionWilliam J. White, J. Tuomas Harviainen and Emily Care Boss      Gary Alan Fine Revisited: RPG Research in the 21st CenturyKatherine Castiello Jones      The Agentic Imagination: Tabletop Role-Playing Games as a Cultural ToolTodd Nicholas Fuist      PART 3 : REALITY BREACHES MEDIAKid Nation: Television, Systemic Violence and Game DesignEvan Torner      Survivor Meets the Hero’s Journey: Connecting Mythic Structures to Reality TelevisionErik Dulick      A Game About Killing: Role-Playing in the Liminal Spaces of Social Network GamesEric Newsom      Deleting Memory Space: The Gaming of History and the Absence of the HolocaustM.-Niclas Heckner      Works Cited      About the Contributors      Index