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Computer Games and New Media Cultures: A Handbook of Digital Games Studies
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ISBN10: 9400793014
ISBN13: 9789400793019
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jun 11 2014
Pages: 712
Weight: 2.18
Height: 1.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
ISBN13: 9789400793019
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jun 11 2014
Pages: 712
Weight: 2.18
Height: 1.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
1 Johannes Fromme and Alexander Unger: Computer Games and Digital Game Cultures - An Introduction.- Part I: Computer Games and Game Analysis.- 2 Stephan Günzel: The Mediality of Computer Games.- 3 Connie Veugen: Computer Games as a Comparative Medium: A Few Cautionary Remarks.- 4 Felix Raczkowski: And what do you play? A few Considerations Concerning a Genre Theory of Games.- 5 Serjoscha Wiemer: Interface Analysis: Notes on the 'Scopic Regime' of Strategic Action in Real-Time Strategy Games.- 6 Daniel Martin Feige:
Computer Games as Works of Art.- 7 Paolo Ruffino: A Theory of Non-Existent Video Games: Semiotic and Video Game Theory.- 8 Rolf F. Nohr: Free Market Economy and Dino-Crisis: The Production and Circulation of Knowledge in Strategy Games.- 9 Tanya Krzywinska: The Strange Case of the Misappearance of Sex in Videogames.- 10 Michael Nitsche: Growing Game Worlds.- 11 Caja Thimm: Virtual Worlds: Game or Virtual Society?.- Part II: The Player-Game Relation.- 12 Richard A. Bartle: MMO Morality.- 13 Dominik Härig: Inside and Outside the Game.- 14 Souvik Mukherjee: Egoshooting in Chernobyl: Identity and Subject(s) in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Games.- 15 Katharina Stephenson: Personality Development through Immersion into Intermediate Areas of Digital Role Playing Games.- 16 Regina Friess: Symbolic Interaction in Digital Games: Theoretical Reflections on Dimensions of Meaning Construction in Digital Gameplay.- 17 Betty Li Meldgaard: Playing by the Visual Rules:
An Ecological Approach to Perception and Videogames.- 18 Daniel Pietschmann, Georg Valtin and Peter Ohler: The Effect of Authentic Input Devices on Computer Game Immersion.- Part III: Users, Uses and Social Contexts of Computer Games.- 19 Dorothee M. Meister, Jörg Müller-Lietzkow, Eckhard Burkatzki and Sonja Kröger: Digital Games in the Context of Adolescent Media Behavior.- 20 Jan Keilhauer: Online Games: Modern Media Worlds of Young People.- 21 Steve Dahlskog: Playing Together: The Player's Repertoire, an Obstacle to Learning.- 22 Sven Jöckel and Leyla Dogruel: The Right Game: Video Game Choice of Children and Adolescents.- 23 Christopher Blake and Christoph Klimmt: The Challenge of Measuring the Use of Computer Games.- 24 Mutlu Binark and Günseli Bayraktutan-Sütcü A Critical Interpretation of a new 'Creative Industry' in Turkey: Game Studios and the Production of a Value Chain.- Part IV: Game and Player Cultures.- 25 Elke Hemminger and Gareth Schott: Mergence of Spaces: MMORPG User-Practice and Everyday Life.- 26 Diane Carr: Interpretation, Conflict and Instruction in Online Multiplayer Games: Lessons from Warsong Gulch.- 27 Malin Sveningsson: Pity there's so few girls! Attitudes to Female Participation in a Swedish Gaming Context.- 28 Jutta Zaremba: The Gender-Offensive: Female Gaming Cultures between Shooters and Marketing.- 29 Judith Ackermann: Playing Computer Games as Social Interaction: An Analysis of LAN-Parties.- 30 Tanja Adamus: Playing Computer Games as Electronic Sport: In Search of a Theoretical Framing for a New Research Field.- 31 Lisbeth Fr lunde: Machinima Filmmaking as Culture in Practice: Dialogical Processes of Remix.- 32 Alexander Unger: Modding as Part of Game Culture.- 33 Jeffrey Wimmer: Digital Game Culture(s) as Prototype(s) of Mediatization and Commercialization of Society: The World Cyber Games 2008 in Cologne as an Example.- Part V: Educational Approaches and Learning.- 34 Michael T. Giang, Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields and Kristin A. Searle: Social Interactions in Virtual Worlds: Patterns and Profiles of Tween Relationship Play.- 35 Karsten Wolf: The Instructional Design and Motivational Mechanics of World of Warcraft.- 36 Konstantin Mitgutsch: Learning Through Play - a Delicate Matter: Experience-based Recursive Learning in Computer Games.- 37 Jennifer Jenson, Suzanne de Castell, Nicholas Taylor, Milena Droumeva and Stephanie Fisher: Learnin
An Ecological Approach to Perception and Videogames.- 18 Daniel Pietschmann, Georg Valtin and Peter Ohler: The Effect of Authentic Input Devices on Computer Game Immersion.- Part III: Users, Uses and Social Contexts of Computer Games.- 19 Dorothee M. Meister, Jörg Müller-Lietzkow, Eckhard Burkatzki and Sonja Kröger: Digital Games in the Context of Adolescent Media Behavior.- 20 Jan Keilhauer: Online Games: Modern Media Worlds of Young People.- 21 Steve Dahlskog: Playing Together: The Player's Repertoire, an Obstacle to Learning.- 22 Sven Jöckel and Leyla Dogruel: The Right Game: Video Game Choice of Children and Adolescents.- 23 Christopher Blake and Christoph Klimmt: The Challenge of Measuring the Use of Computer Games.- 24 Mutlu Binark and Günseli Bayraktutan-Sütcü A Critical Interpretation of a new 'Creative Industry' in Turkey: Game Studios and the Production of a Value Chain.- Part IV: Game and Player Cultures.- 25 Elke Hemminger and Gareth Schott: Mergence of Spaces: MMORPG User-Practice and Everyday Life.- 26 Diane Carr: Interpretation, Conflict and Instruction in Online Multiplayer Games: Lessons from Warsong Gulch.- 27 Malin Sveningsson: Pity there's so few girls! Attitudes to Female Participation in a Swedish Gaming Context.- 28 Jutta Zaremba: The Gender-Offensive: Female Gaming Cultures between Shooters and Marketing.- 29 Judith Ackermann: Playing Computer Games as Social Interaction: An Analysis of LAN-Parties.- 30 Tanja Adamus: Playing Computer Games as Electronic Sport: In Search of a Theoretical Framing for a New Research Field.- 31 Lisbeth Fr lunde: Machinima Filmmaking as Culture in Practice: Dialogical Processes of Remix.- 32 Alexander Unger: Modding as Part of Game Culture.- 33 Jeffrey Wimmer: Digital Game Culture(s) as Prototype(s) of Mediatization and Commercialization of Society: The World Cyber Games 2008 in Cologne as an Example.- Part V: Educational Approaches and Learning.- 34 Michael T. Giang, Yasmin B. Kafai, Deborah A. Fields and Kristin A. Searle: Social Interactions in Virtual Worlds: Patterns and Profiles of Tween Relationship Play.- 35 Karsten Wolf: The Instructional Design and Motivational Mechanics of World of Warcraft.- 36 Konstantin Mitgutsch: Learning Through Play - a Delicate Matter: Experience-based Recursive Learning in Computer Games.- 37 Jennifer Jenson, Suzanne de Castell, Nicholas Taylor, Milena Droumeva and Stephanie Fisher: Learnin
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