Video Games and Mental Health

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of Digital Media Culture
• 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 ga... Lees meer

Time and Space in Video Games

Federico Alvarez Igarzábal

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of Digital Media Culture
• Video games are temporal artifacts: They change with time as players interact with them in accordance with rules. In this study, Federico Alvarez Igar... Lees meer

History in Games

Martin Lorber, Felix Zimmermann

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of Digital Media Culture
• 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-sp... Lees meer

Gaming the Metaverse

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of Digital Media Culture
• After the change from »Facebook« to »Meta« everyone talked about the Metaverse, only to dismiss it shortly after as new advances in AI emerged. Regard... Lees meer

Playing Utopia

Benjamin Beil, Gundolf S. Freyermuth, Hanns Christian Schmidt

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of Digital Media Culture
• Media narratives inform our ideas of the future - and Games are currently making a significant contribution to this medial reservoir. On the one hand,... Lees meer

Violence - Perception - Video Games

Federico Alvare Igarzabal, Michael S. Debus, Curtis L. Maughan

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of Digital Media Culture
• This volume compiles papers from the Young Academics Workshop at the Clash of Realities conferences of 2017 and 2018. The 2017 workshop - Perceiving V... Lees meer

Paratextualizing Games

Benjamin Beil, Gundolf S. Freyermuth, Hanns Christian Schmidt

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of Digital Media Culture
• Gaming no longer only takes place as a "closed interactive experience" in front of TV screens, but also as broadcast on streaming platforms or as cult... Lees meer

Immersive Technology Meets Cultural Heritage

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of Digital Media Culture
• From museums to memorials, all cultural heritage institutions are constantly driving the digital transformation of their educational outreach. In the ... Lees meer

Narratives Crossing Boundaries

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of Digital Media Culture
• As the dominant narrative forms in the age of media convergence, films and games call for a transmedial perspective in narratology. Games allow a part... Lees meer

Playing Dystopia

Gerald Farca

• Paperback | Engels | Studies of Digital Media Culture
• Video games permeate our everyday existence. They immerse players in fascinating gameworlds and exciting experiences, often inviting them in various w... Lees meer