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Digital game culture in Korea
Lanham, Boulder, New York, London: Lexington Books (2023), xii, 123 pp.
"Digital Game Culture in Korea: The Social at Play is a critical ethnographic investigation of media discourses surrounding online game addiction and the sociocultural roles fulfilled by games in everyday life. Florence M. Chee argues that the casting of online games as singularly problematic or add
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The Pop Theology of Videogames: Producing and Playing with Religion
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2023), 158 pp.
"Young people in the West are more likely to encounter religion in videogames than in places of worship like churches, mosques or temples. Lars de Wildt interviews developers and players of games such as Assassin’s Creed to find out how and why the Pop Theology of Videogames is so appealing to mod
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Projekte der Initiative Stärker mit Games 2018-2022
Berlin: Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur (2023), 95 pp.
Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent: Development, Culture(s) and Representations
London: Bloomsbury (2023), ix, 247 pp.
"The book Videogames in the Indian Subcontinent. Development, Culture(s) and Representations is the first ever comprehensive presentation and discussion of material spanning over all nations of South Asia, including Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Discussed b
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Counter Recruiting in the Online Gaming Community
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2023), 9 pp.
"Organisations ranging from violent extremist groups to the US Army have used online gaming, a popular form of entertainment among the world’s youth, for recruiting purposes. To date, efforts to curtail online recruiting have been siloed to reduce recruitment of certain groups, such as violent ext
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Metaverse und Gaming: Potenziale für die Auswärtige Kultur- und Bildungspolitik
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2023), 88 pp.
"Diese Studie trägt dazu bei, ein Verständnis für das Thema ,Gaming‘ und seine Derivate zu vermitteln und mithilfe von interdisziplinären, theoriegeleiteten Übersichten, Modellen und Handlungsempfehlungen eine praxisorientierte, qualifizierte Extended Gaming Literacy für Akteur:innen der Aus
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Politiken des (digitalen) Spiels: Transdisziplinäre Perspektiven
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2023), 357 pp.
"Spiele sind durch Produktion, Distribution und Konsumption in politische Strukturen eingebunden. Sie spiegeln nicht nur ihre Umwelt wider, sondern werden auch maßgeblich durch diese geformt. Die Beiträger*innen fragen transdisziplinär nach der Analyse solcher "Politiken des Spiels": Innerhalb we
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Narratives Crossing Boundaries: Storytelling in a Transmedial and Transdisciplinary Context
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2023), 280 pp.
"As the dominant narrative forms in the age of media convergence, films and games call for a transmedial perspective in narratology. Games allow a participatory reception of the story, bringing the transgression of the ontological boundary between the narrated world and the world of the recipient in
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Fictional Practices of Spirituality I: Interactive Media
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2023), 476 pp.
"Fictional Practices of Spirituality" provides critical insight into the implementation of belief, mysticism, religion, and spirituality into worlds of fiction, be it interactive or non-interactive. This first volume focuses on interactive, virtual worlds - may that be the digital realms of video ga
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Mental Health | Atmospheres | Video Games: New Directions in Game Research II
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2022), 260 pp.
"An exploration of the video games as an atmospheric medium questioning its impact on us and our mental health." (Publisher description)
Gamification for Innovators and Entrepreneurs: Using Games to Drive Innovation and Facilitate Learning
Deep Insights
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter (2022), 219 pp.
"This book introduces the potential of gamification and games to solve the great societal and organisational challenges that corporations and public institutions are dealing with today. It is written for innovation professionals, entrepreneurs, game designers, and students who seek to understand and
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Video Games as Tools for Non-State Cultural Diplomacy: A Case Study of the Video Game 'Never Alone'
Boulder: University of Colorado, doctoral thesis (2021), x, 272 pp.
"With rapidly changing digital platforms and the impact of globalization on cultural diplomacy that has provoked the increasing mediatization of the field, non-state actors are now able to expand networks and gain legitimacy by addressing new publics using digital spaces. While the research about th
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"A tese parte da constatação de que existem componentes do sagrado que podem determinar ou não as narrativas dos jogos eletrônicos, para investigar os elementos religiosos presentes nos operadores audiovisuais dos games, a partir dos referenciais teóricos da transdiciplinaridade-complexidade e
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Media Monitoring Report on Gambling & Gaming Activities on Media in Kenya
Nairobi: Media Council of Kenya (2021), viii, 27 pp.
Persuasive Gaming in Context
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2021), 264 pp.
"The ubiquitous presence of digital games has resulted in an expansion of the applications of these games from mere entertainment purposes to a great variety of serious purposes. In this edited volume, we narrow the scope of attention by focusing on what game theorist Ian Bogost has called 'persuasi
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Re-Imagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean: Global South Issues in Media, Culture and Technology
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xxiii, 381 pp.
"This book advances alternative approaches to understanding media, culture and technology in two vibrant regions of the Global South. Bringing together scholars from Africa and the Caribbean, it traverses the domains of communication theory, digital technology strategy, media practice reforms, and c
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Os games no discurso adventista: Breve análise de publicações e documentos eclesiásticos
Tropos: Comunicação, Sociedade e Cultura, volume 10, issue 1 (2021), 28 pp.
"Com a emergência dos estudos acadêmicos sobre a interface entre religião e jogos digitais, o presente trabalho procura explorar a relação entre a Igreja Adventista do Sétimo Dia (IASD) e os jogos analógicos e digitais, de forma a compreender o pensamento e a visão adventista acerca dos game
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Media Theories and Approaches: A Global Perspective
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, corrected version (2021), xx, 339 pp.
History in Games: Contingencies of an Authentic Past
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2020), 280 pp.
"Where do we end up when we enter the time machine that is the digital game? One axiomatic truth of historical research is that the past is the time-space that eludes human intervention. Every account made of the past is therefore only an approximation. But how is it that strolling through ancient A
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Atlas der digitalen Welt
Deep Insights
Frankfurt am Main; New York: Campus Verlag (2020), 271 pp.
"Jeder, der sich in irgendeiner Form mit digitalen Medien beschäftigt, lebt in einer paradoxen Welt: Denn zu keinem Feld existieren mehr Daten, Informationen und Statistiken. Aber zugleich handelt es sich stets um isolierte, winzige Partikel und Fragmente, die sich nicht integrieren lassen. Das Pro
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