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Video Games and Mental Health: Perspectives of Psychology and Game Design
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2026), 228 pp.
"How do video games and mental health intersect from the perspectives of psychology and game design? In recent years, the topic of mental health has gained tremendous importance for the games industry, affecting both the applied and entertainment games sectors. The former draws from established prac
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Grundwissen Game Studies und Ludologie: Theorie und Praxis
Tübingen: UVK (2025), 597 pp.
"Spiele durchdringen unser Leben. Sie dienen nicht nur der Unterhaltung. Sie sind auch Kommunikations- und Lerninstrument. Giovanni Vindigni führt in die Ludologie, die Lehre des Spielens, ein. Eindrucksvoll stellt er Geschichte, Einsatz sowie Klassifikation vor und berücksichtigt den Kompetenzerw
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Handbuch Gaming & Rechtsextremismus: Voraussetzungen, Einstellungen, Prozesse, Auswege
Deep Insights
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (2025), 354 pp.
"Der Einfluss des Rechtsextremismus im und auf das Gaming ist real und deshalb braucht es fundierte und kritische Analysen – ohne Alarmismus. Denn zum einen sind Gaming-Kulturen zu stark ausdifferenziert, um pauschale Aussagen über sie treffen zu können. Zum anderen ist Rechtsextremismus als Ph
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Gaming and Extremism: The Radicalization of Digital Playgrounds
New York; London: Routledge (2024), xvi, 218 pp.
"Charting the increase in the use of games for the dissemination of extremist propaganda, radicalization, recruitment, and mobilization, this book examines the 'gamification of extremism.' Editors Linda Schlegel and Rachel Kowert bring together a range of insights from world-leading experts in the f
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Gaming in Africa
GeoPoll (2024), 30 slides
"GeoPoll’s latest report, “Gaming in Africa,” provides a detailed exploration of the burgeoning gaming scene across Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. Drawing from the perspectives of more than 2,500 gamers, this report shines a light on the habits, preferences, and challenges of the Afr
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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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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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Jumanji Extremism? How Games and Gamification Could Facilitate Radicalization Processes
Journal for Deradicalization, issue 23 (2020), pp. 1-43
"This article makes an exploratory contribution to the theoretical foundations of the study of gaming in radicalization research. It is argued that both top-down and bottom up gamification have already impacted extremist discourse and potentially radicalization processes but that research on gamific
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Child’s Play: Cooperative Gaming as a Tool of Deradicalization
Journal for Deradicalization, issue 23 (2020), pp. 96-132
"This research project contributes to the CVE (countering violent extremism) literature by studying narratives as tools of reflections on self-identity designed intentionally within gaming exercises to help contextualize and account for as much environmental complexity as possible. This paper provid
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Understanding Video Games: The Essential Introduction
New York; London: Routledge, 4th ed. (2020), xiii, 399 pp.
"In this new edition of the pioneering text, students learn to assess the major theories used to analyze games, such as ludology and narratology, and gain familiarity with the commercial and organizational aspects of the game industry. Drawing from historical and contemporary examples, the student-f
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Our Lives Online: Use of Social Media by Children and Adolescents in East Asia. Opportunities, Risks and Harms
Bangkok: UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office; Centre for Justice and Crime Prevention (2020), 68 pp.
"This study is a snapshot of children’s use of social media in East Asia, focusing on four countries: Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. The research incorporates the experiences of 301 children across the four countries, including 121 street children and refugees, collected through a ser
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Rechte Ego-Shooter: Von der virtuellen Hetze zum Livestream-Attentat
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2020), 208 pp.
"Rechtsextremistisch, antisemitisch oder rassistisch motivierten Anschlägen fielen seit 2019 in Neuseeland, den USA, Norwegen und Deutschland 86 Menschen zu Opfer. Die Täter verbindet nicht nur ihr Hass, sondern ebenso ihre Radikalisierung im Internet. Sie alle fanden zuvor in einschlägigen Foren
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The Oxford Handbook of Cyberpsychology
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2019), xxv, 752 pp.
"This book explores a wide range of cyberpsychological processes and activities through the research and writings of some of the world’s leading cyberpsychology experts. The book covers a broad range of topics spanning the key areas of research interest in this emerging field of enquiry and will b
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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)
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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Methods for Studying Video Games and Religion
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xviii, 221 pp.
The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption
London; New York: Routledge, paperback ed. (2018), xviii, 438 pp.
"Adopting emerging technologies easily, spending a large proportion of time online and multitasking are signs of the increasingly digital nature of our everyday lives. Yet consumer research is just beginning to emerge on how this affects basic human and consumer behaviours such as attention, learnin
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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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