Culture at Play: How Video Games Influence and Replicate Our World

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Del 134 i serien At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries

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Beskrivning

What is video game culture and video games as culture? Culture at Play avoids easy answers and deceitful single definitions. Instead, the collected essays included here navigate the messy and exciting waters of video games, of culture, and of the meeting of video games and culture, and do so from four perspectives: Players: Types and Identities; The Human/The Machine: Agents, Ethics, and Affect; Compassion, Recognition, and the Interpersonal; and Learning through Play. As a form of play, video games can greatly affect our lives. As digital objects, they participate in our digital lives. As both, they have a noticeable impact on our relationships with others, with society, and with ourselves, and this is the scope of this book.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-11-19
Mått:155 x 235 x 9 mm
Vikt:269 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries
Antal sidor:142
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004373389

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Samhälle och kultur inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Lindsey Joyce, Ph.D., is a former lecturer of Game Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her work focuses primarily on digital interactive narrative system design and can be found via Inter-Disciplinary Press, Brill, and McFarland Press.Víctor Navarro-Remesal, Ph.D., is a researcher in Game Studies and assistant professor at CESAG (Comillas Pontifical University), and a specialist in East Asian Studies. He has published books and papers on freedom, ethics, and narrative in videogames.

Innehållsförteckning

Notes on Contributors0 Video Games, Culture, and Everything: An IntroductionVictor Navarro-RemesalPlayers: Types and Identities1 Is Your Masculinity Threatened? Then You’re Not Man Enough to Play: Robot Unicorn Attack 2 and Beyond the Gender ChallengePeter Feer and Robin Skinner2 We Are Smash Bros: Understanding Player Types and Ideals Through Worldwide Game DesignBradley McAvoy-James and Bobbie Fletcher3 Empowering Avatars: The Impact of In-Game Presence on Everyday FunctioningMarta Tymińska4 Without so Much as a Word: Non-Verbal Performances of Masculine Identity in Adolescent Call of Duty PlayersGareth HealeyThe Human/The Machine: Agents, Ethics, and Affect5 Agents in Space and Time: Fundamentals of Interactive Narrative SystemsLindsey Joyce6 Killswitch Engage: Ethics in Game DesignArmin Lippitz7 Pushing the Lever: Rule-Consequentialism and Utilitarianism in Life is StrangePatrick Goritschnig8 Light My (Camp-)Fire: Affect and Incitement in FirewatchRené Reinhold SchalleggerCompassion, Recognition, and the Interpersonal9 Representing Interpersonal Relationships in Videogame TermsSarah Faber10 Press X to recognize the Other’s Suffering: Compassion and Recognition in GamesVictor Navarro-Remesal and Ignacio BergillosLearning through Play11 Toward Engaging Educational Digital GamesStephen Mallory12 Serious Topics and Fun Games: ‘Hidden in the Zoo’Niklas Torstensson and Tarja Susi13 ‘You Can Deny Seriousness, but You Can’t Deny Play’: Emergent Resistance to Purposive GamesLuca MoriniIndex