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Fictional Practices of Spirituality I: Interactive Media
Bielefeld: transcript (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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Narratives Crossing Boundaries: Storytelling in a Transmedial and Transdisciplinary Context
Bielefeld: transcript (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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Politiken des (digitalen) Spiels: Transdisziplinäre Perspektiven
Bielefeld: transcript (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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Tackling Misinformation with Games: A Systematic Literature Review
Interactive Learning Environments (2023), 16 pp.
"Misinformation and fake news are severe threats to society. The role of critical reading skills is crucial in the battle against misinformation. Despite the promising results of game-based interventions to mitigate the effects of misinformation, the corpus of research on games supporting critical r
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What’s the News About Bad News? A Review of Bad News Games as a Tool to Teach Media Literacy
Libri, volume 73, issue 4 (2023), pp. 283-292
"This paper examines the Bad News series of games, created by the Cambridge University Social Decision Making Lab and DROG Group, as an educational tool. More specifically, it considers Bad News as a persuasive game, within the umbrella of gamification. After considering the history and context of t
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Handbook Auswärtsspiel: Understanding and Experiencing Foreign Policy with Games
Berlin: Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur (2023), 113 pp.
Projekte der Initiative Stärker mit Games 2018-2022
Berlin: Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur (2023), 95 pp.
Juegos, videojuegos y juegos online
Huelva: Grupo Comunicar;Junta de Andalucía, Consejería de Inclusión Social, Juventud, Familias e Igualdad (2023), 31 pp.
Teaching with Games: Formative Gaming in Religion, Philosophy and Ethics
Gamevironments, issue 19 (2023), 205 pp.
"This special issue explores the power of games to shape worldviews, share perspectives, develop religious identities and provoke ethical reflection. Contributors bring together ideas from classrooms of philosophy and religious studies with case studies fromreligious communities and companies engage
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Trauma im Computerspiel: Mediale Repräsentationen mentaler Extremerfahrungen
Bielefeld: transcript (2022), 322 pp.
"Über das Medium Computerspiel findet zunehmend eine Auseinandersetzung mit psychologischen Traumata statt. Posttraumatische Belastungsstörung, Krankheit und Tod sowie Depressionen und Phobien sind hierbei vorherrschende Themen und Motive. Thomas Spies zeigt in einem historischen Überblick und in
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This Time It’s for All the Marbles. Social Injustice in Digital Gaming
Gamevironments, issue 17 (2022), 481 pp.
"This special issue aims to examine the ways in which games and gaming are connected to and potentially accelerate undemocratic and bigoted movements while simultaneously highlighting projects and perspectives from games and games research that learn from analyzing these issues and then use that kno
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Gamification for Innovators and Entrepreneurs: Using Games to Drive Innovation and Facilitate Learning
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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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Mental Health | Atmospheres | Video Games: New Directions in Game Research II
Bielefeld: transcript (2022), 260 pp.
"An exploration of the video games as an atmospheric medium questioning its impact on us and our mental health." (Publisher description)
Game Production Studies
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2021), 355 pp.
"In Game Production Studies, an international group of established and emerging researchers takes a closer look at the everyday realities of video game production, ranging from commercial industries to independent creators and cultural intermediaries. Across sixteen chapters, the authors deal with i
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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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Media Monitoring Report on Gambling & Gaming Activities on Media in Kenya
Nairobi: Media Council of Kenya (2021), viii, 27 pp.
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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O sagrado nos jogos digitais: Arquétipos do sagrado no game Dragon Age: Origins
Recife: Universidade Católica de Pernambuco, Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências da Religião, Doctoral Thesis (2021), 234 pp.
"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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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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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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