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

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-37338-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 134, 142 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 269 g

Reihe: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Joyce, Lindsey

Navarro-Remesal, Víctor

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

0 Video Games, Culture, and Everything: An Introduction

Victor Navarro-Remesal

Players: Types and Identities

1 Is Your Masculinity Threatened? Then You’re Not Man Enough to Play: Robot Unicorn Attack 2 and Beyond the Gender Challenge

Peter Feer and Robin Skinner

2 We Are Smash Bros: Understanding Player Types and Ideals Through Worldwide Game Design

Bradley McAvoy-James and Bobbie Fletcher

3 Empowering Avatars: The Impact of In-Game Presence on Everyday Functioning

Marta Tyminska

4 Without so Much as a Word: Non-Verbal Performances of Masculine Identity in Adolescent Call of Duty Players

Gareth Healey

The Human/The Machine: Agents, Ethics, and Affect

5 Agents in Space and Time: Fundamentals of Interactive Narrative Systems

Lindsey Joyce

6 Killswitch Engage: Ethics in Game Design

Armin Lippitz

7 Pushing the Lever: Rule-Consequentialism and Utilitarianism in Life is Strange

Patrick Goritschnig

8 Light My (Camp-)Fire: Affect and Incitement in Firewatch

René Reinhold Schallegger

Compassion, Recognition, and the Interpersonal

9 Representing Interpersonal Relationships in Videogame Terms

Sarah Faber

10 Press X to recognize the Other’s Suffering: Compassion and Recognition in Games

Victor Navarro-Remesal and Ignacio Bergillos

Learning through Play

11 Toward Engaging Educational Digital Games

Stephen Mallory

12 Serious Topics and Fun Games: ‘Hidden in the Zoo’

Niklas Torstensson and Tarja Susi

13 ‘You Can Deny Seriousness, but You Can’t Deny Play’: Emergent Resistance to Purposive Games

Luca Morini

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.