Exploring New Horizons in Video Game Cultures - Couverture souple

 
9789464263886: Exploring New Horizons in Video Game Cultures
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ISBN 10 : 9464263881 ISBN 13 : 9789464263886
Editeur : Sidestone Press, 2025

Synopsis

This book brings together a selection of papers delivered at the Video Game Cultures 2023 conference, held from 7 to 9 September 2023 at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. An interdisciplinary collection drawing on disciplines from literary and cultural studies through to evolutionary psychology, this book critically investigates many developments in video game cultures, technologies, practices, texts, paratexts, and genres. Through examining ideas such as narrative and time, gender and sexuality, ethics and affect, and technology and spaces, our authors aim to expand our shared understanding of video games, and the cultures and communities which surround them.

The work presented here reflects authors at different points in their academic careers, and will appeal to a variety of readers, from those wanting to find out more about academic writing on video games, through to those with a focused scholarly interest in particular fields of enquiry. With sections addressing Queer Game Studies, Historical Game Studies, and Game Design Perspectives, alongside ideas of solidarity and kindness in video games, the collection speaks to numerous subfields within games research. The chapters within offer conclusions and recommendations for academics and other educators, for established and aspiring game designers, and for anyone interested in how games can be understood as meaningful contributors to our cultural lives.

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À propos des auteurs

Nick Webber is Resources Coordinator for the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Central England in Birmingham.

Ewan Kirkland has published extensively on video games, focussing on survival horror and the Silent Hill series. Exploring such issues as storytelling, gender representation, genre and concept art, Ewan's work has appeared in Games and Culture, Convergence, Gothic Studies and Camera Obscura. Routledge Advances in Game Studies recently published his study examining the influence of Gothic literature on games design, which contains chapters on Bioshock, Gone Home, What Remains of Edith Finch and Night in the Woods. Other research interests include animation, children's culture and fandom. Ewan's current research project explores UK fan conventions surrounding Hasbro's My Little Pony series.

René Reinhold Schallegger was trained in English and American as well as French Studies, with a focus on literary and cultural criticism at the University of Klagenfurt (Austria), Anglia Ruskin University (UK), and Birmingham City University (UK). He is Associate Professor at the University of Klagenfurt, and his main areas of interest are media cultures of the fantastic, normative ethics, affect theory, Citizenship-, Gender-, Queer-, Canadian-, and Game Studies. He is President of the Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung (Association for Research in the Fantastic), and his most recent publication is the monograph A New Virtual Ethics: Interconnectedness and Interrelationality in Videogames (2024).

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This book brings together a selection of papers delivered at the Video Game Cultures 2023 conference, held from 7 to 9 September 2023 at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. An interdisciplinary collection drawing on disciplines from literary and cultural studies through to evolutionary psychology, this book critically investigates many developments in video game cultures, technologies, practices, texts, paratexts, and genres. Through examining ideas such as narrative and time, gender and sexuality, ethics and affect, and technology and spaces, our authors aim to expand our shared understanding of video games, and the cultures and communities which surround them.

The work presented here reflects authors at different points in their academic careers, and will appeal to a variety of readers, from those wanting to find out more about academic writing on video games, through to those with a focused scholarly interest in particular fields of enquiry. With sections addressing Queer Game Studies, Historical Game Studies, and Game Design Perspectives, alongside ideas of solidarity and kindness in video games, the collection speaks to numerous subfields within games research. The chapters within offer conclusions and recommendations for academics and other educators, for established and aspiring game designers, and for anyone interested in how games can be understood as meaningful contributors to our cultural lives.

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Éditeur
Sidestone Press
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9464263881
ISBN 13 
9789464263886
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
180
Éditeur
Webber Nick, Kirkland Ewan, Reinhold Schallegger René
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