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Unbeatable? Debates and Divides in Gender and Video Game Research
Communication Research Trends, volume 37, issue 3 (2018), pp. 4-29
"In this review essay, I will chart the history of video game technology, the emergence of game studies as a field, provide an overview of the key aspects of gender and video game research, and highlight key debates in gender and video games research." (Page 5)
Methods for Studying Video Games and Religion
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xviii, 221 pp.
What’s the Problem in Problem Gaming? Nordic Research Perspectives
Göteborg: Nordicom (2018), 123 pp.
"By publishing this anthology, we would like to help steer the research agenda away from ‘videogame addiction’ as a psychological pathology ascribed to the individual and towards a situated understanding of problem gaming as something that takes place between people in the socio-cultural context
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Guide to developing digital games for early grade literacy for developing countries
Quezon City; Washington DC: Foundation for Information Technology Education and Development; World Vision (2018), 43 pp.
Games and Bereavement: How Video Games Represent Attachment, Loss, and Grief
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2018), 273 pp.
"How can videogames portray love and loss? Games and Bereavement answers this question by looking at five videogames and carrying out a participatory design study with grievers. Sabine Harrer highlights possible connections between grief and videogames, arguing that game design may help make difficu
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Metagame: Panoramas dos Game Studies no Brasil
São Paulo: Intercom – Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação (2017), 308 pp.
"Este volume consiste em uma seleção de artigos que versam sobre questões contemporâneas dos estudos de jogos eletrônicos – game studies – e sobre sua inevitável interseção junto ao campo da Comunicação. Nela estão presentes trabalhos apresentados na primeira edição do GP de Games d
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Storytelling for Interactive Digital Media and Video Games
Boca Raton, Fl.: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis (2017), xv, 280 pp.
"This book is the perfect guide to aspiring storytellers as it illustrates the different manner of how and why stories are told, and how to make them "interactive." Storytelling features heavy game development as a method of storytelling and delivery, and how to develop compelling plots, characters,
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Mobile Gaming in Asia: Politics, Culture and Emerging Technologies
Dordrecht: Springer (2017), vi, 247 pp.
"This book analyzes mobile gaming in the Asian context and looks into a hitherto neglected focus of inquiry - a localized mobile landscape, with particular reference to young Asians' engagement with mobile gaming. This edition focuses not only on the remarkable success of local mobile games, but als
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Experiencias de gamificación en aulas
Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2017), 125 pp.
"Experiencias de gamificación en el aula" es el segundo libro de está temática que está organizado por investigadores del Observatorio de Comunicación, Videojuegos y Entretenimiento del Instituto de la Comunicación de la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (InCom-UAB) y de la Universidad de Vic
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Spielend lernen! Computerspiele(n) in Schule und Unterricht
Düsseldorf; München: kopaed (2017), 198 pp.
"Computerspiele sind Kulturgut. Sie sind etablierte und treibende Kraft gesellschaftlicher Transformationsprozesse in der Freizeitgestaltung und des Medienkonsums zu Unterhaltungszwecken. Aber lassen sich gerade in kommerziellen Spielen – sogenannten off-the-shelf games – auch Bildungspotenziale
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Klimaschutz als Medienwirkung: Eine kommunikationswissenschaftliche Studie zur Konzeption, Rezeption und Wirkung eines Online-Spiels zum Stromsparen
Ilmenau: Universitätsverlag Ilmenau (2016), 276 pp.
"Aus der Perspektive der Rezeptions- und Wirkungsforschung stellt sich die Frage, wie mediale Kommunikation dazu beitragen kann, dass Menschen klimabewusster handeln. Die bisherigen Ergebnisse zeigen, dass viele der typischen Darstellungsformen des Klimawandels - wie Katastrophenbilder - eher kontra
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Video Games Around the World
Deep Insights
Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2015), xiv, 697 pp.
"Video games have become a global industry, and their history spans dozens of national industries where foreign imports compete with domestic productions, legitimate industry contends with piracy, and national identity faces the global marketplace. This volume describes video game history and cultur
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Making Democracy Fun: How Game Design can Empower Citizens and Transform Politics
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2014), viii, 267 pp.
"In Making Democracy Fun, Josh Lerner offers a novel solution for the sad state of our deliberative democracy: the power of good game design. What if public meetings featured competition and collaboration (such as team challenges), clear rules (presented and modeled in multiple ways), measurable pro
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Digitales Erzählen: Die Dramaturgie der neuen Medien
Konstanz; München: UVK (2014), 252 pp.
"Dennis Eick zeigt, welche neuen Erzählformen durch das Internet und die technischen Möglichkeiten der Digitalisierung realisiert werden können. Er stellt zahlreiche Beispiele aus dem nationalen und internationalen Bereich vor und führt Interviews mit namhaften Fachleuten aus den einzelnen Genre
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Ringvorlesung Games: Retro-Games, Gamification, Augmented Reality
München: Hooffacker (2014), 128 pp.
"Chancen und Risiken von Computerspielen, Retro Gaming, Gamification, Sim Games und Augmented Reality: Im Wintersemester 2013/2014 haben sich Professorinnen und Professoren aus ganz Bayern an der ersten bayernweiten Ringvorlesung Games beteiligt. Der MedienCampus Bayern und Games/Bavaria haben für
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Playing with Religion in Digital Games
Bloomington; Indianapolis: Indiana University Press (2014), ix, 301 pp.
"Shaman, paragon, God-mode: modern video games are heavily coded with religious undertones. From the Shinto-inspired Japanese video game 'Okami' to the internationally popular 'The Legend of Zelda' and 'Halo', many video games rely on religious themes and symbols to drive the narrative and frame the
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Storytelling in virtuellen Welten
Konstanz; München: UVK (2014), 297 pp.
"David Lochner gibt einen Überblick über die vielfältigen Möglichkeiten des Erzählens im virtuellen Raum. Ob Animationsfilm, digitales Spiel oder interaktiver Film – sie alle bieten Autoren und Produzenten neue Wege, Geschichten zu erzählen: Visionen, Träume und Welten zu entwickeln, die da
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Religion, the Making of Goddess and Video Game in an Oral Tradition
Religion and Social Communication, volume 10, issue 1 (2012), pp. 39-72
Interactive Storytelling for Video Games: A Player-Centered Approach to Creating Memorable Characters and Stories
Burlington, MA: Focal Press (2011), xi, 319 pp.
"Game stories have evolved from the simple kidnapped-girl plot of Donkey Kong to the complex novel-length tales of modern RPGs. In addition, the ability of the player to interact with and affect the story has created many new and different types of stories that are difficult if not impossible to por
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