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Identity and Play in Interactive Digital Media

Author : Sara M. Cole
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315390760
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Identity and Play in Interactive Digital Media written by Sara M. Cole and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent shifts in new literacy studies have expanded definitions of text, reading/viewing, and literacy itself. The inclusion of non-traditional media forms is essential, as texts beyond written words, images, or movement across a screen are becoming ever more prominent in media studies. Included in such non-print texts are interactive media forms like computer or video games that can be understood in similar, though distinct, terms as texts that are read by their users. This book examines how people are socially, culturally, and personally changing as a result of their reading of, or interaction with, these texts. This work explores the concept of ergodic ontogeny: the mental development resulting from interactive digital media play experiences causing change in personal identity.

Identity and Play in Interactive Digital Media

Author : Sara M. Cole
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315390779
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Identity and Play in Interactive Digital Media written by Sara M. Cole and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent shifts in new literacy studies have expanded definitions of text, reading/viewing, and literacy itself. The inclusion of non-traditional media forms is essential, as texts beyond written words, images, or movement across a screen are becoming ever more prominent in media studies. Included in such non-print texts are interactive media forms like computer or video games that can be understood in similar, though distinct, terms as texts that are read by their users. This book examines how people are socially, culturally, and personally changing as a result of their reading of, or interaction with, these texts. This work explores the concept of ergodic ontogeny: the mental development resulting from interactive digital media play experiences causing change in personal identity.

Hybrid Play

Author : Adriana de Souza e Silva
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000042359
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hybrid Play written by Adriana de Souza e Silva and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores hybrid play as a site of interdisciplinary activity—one that is capable of generating new forms of mobility, communication, subjects, and artistic expression as well as new ways of interacting with and understanding the world. The chapters in this collection explore hybrid making, hybrid subjects, and hybrid spaces, generating interesting conversations about the past, current and future nature of hybrid play. Together, the authors offer important insights into how place and space are co-constructed through play; how, when, and for what reasons people occupy hybrid spaces; and how cultural practices shape elements of play and vice versa. A diverse group of scholars and practitioners provides a rich interdisciplinary perspective, which will be of great interest to those working in the areas of games studies, media studies, communication, gender studies, and media arts.

Digital Identities

Author : Rob Cover
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128004274
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Digital Identities written by Rob Cover and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Online Identities: Creating and Communicating the Online Self presents a critical investigation of the ways in which representations of identities have shifted since the advent of digital communications technologies. Critical studies over the past century have pointed to the multifaceted nature of identity, with a number of different theories and approaches used to explain how everyday people have a sense of themselves, their behaviors, desires, and representations. In the era of interactive, digital, and networked media and communication, identity can be understood as even more complex, with digital users arguably playing a more extensive role in fashioning their own self-representations online, as well as making use of the capacity to co-create common and group narratives of identity through interactivity and the proliferation of audio-visual user-generated content online. Makes accessible complex theories of identity from the perspective of today’s contemporary, digital media environment Examines how digital media has added to the complexity of identity Takes readers through examples of online identity such as in interactive sites and social networking Explores implications of inter-cultural access that emerges from globalization and world-wide networking

Forms and Functions of Endings in Narrative Digital Games

Author : Michelle Herte
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000172767
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Forms and Functions of Endings in Narrative Digital Games written by Michelle Herte and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-16 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks closely at the endings of narrative digital games, examining their ways of concluding the processes of both storytelling and play in order to gain insight into what endings are and how we identify them in different media. While narrative digital games share many representational strategies for signalling their upcoming end with more traditional narrative media – such as novels or movies – they also show many forms of endings that often radically differ from our conventional understanding of conclusion and closure. From vast game worlds that remain open for play after a story’s finale, to multiple endings that are often hailed as a means for players to create their own stories, to the potentially tragic endings of failure and "game over", digital games question the traditional singularity and finality of endings. Using a broad range of examples, this book delves deeply into these and other forms and their functions, both to reveal the closural specificities of the ludonarrative hybrid that digital games are, as well as to find the core elements that characterise endings in any medium. It examines how endings make themselves known to players and raises the question of how well-established closural conventions blend with play and a player’s effort to achieve a goal. As an interdisciplinary study that draws on game studies as much as on transmedial narratology, Forms and Functions of Endings in Narrative Digital Games is suited for scholars and students of digital games as well as for narratologists yet to become familiar with this medium.

Digital Identity and Social Media

Author : Warburton, Steven
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466619163
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book Digital Identity and Social Media written by Warburton, Steven and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines the impact of digital identities on our day-to-day activities from a range of contemporary technical and socio-cultural perspectives while allowing the reader to deepen understanding about the diverse range of tools and practices that compose the spectrum of online identity services and uses"--Provided by publisher.

The Paradox of Transgression in Games

Author : Torill Elvira Mortensen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000049531
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Paradox of Transgression in Games written by Torill Elvira Mortensen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Paradox of Transgression in Games looks at transgressive games as an aesthetic experience, tackling how players respond to game content that shocks, disturbs, and distresses, and how contemporary video games can evoke intense emotional reactions. The book delves into the commercial success of many controversial videogames: although such games may appear shocking for the observing bystander, playing them is experienced as deeply rewarding for the player. Drawing on qualitative player studies and approaches from media aesthetics theory, the book challenges the perception of games as innocent entertainment, and examines the range of emotional, moral, and intellectual experiences of players. As they explore what players consider transgressive, the authors ask whether there is something about the gameplay situation that works to mitigate the sense of transgression, stressing gameplay as an aesthetic experience. Anchoring the aesthetic game experience both in play studies as well as in aesthetic theory, this book will be an essential resource for scholars and students of game studies, aesthetics, media studies, philosophy of art, and emotions.

Literacy and Identity Through Streaming Media

Author : Damiana Gibbons Pyles
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000869458
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Literacy and Identity Through Streaming Media written by Damiana Gibbons Pyles and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Damiana Gibbons Pyles guides readers through the fast-changing landscape of digital streaming services such as Netflix and explores their impact on children’s and teens’ identities. Children interact with streaming media in novel, hidden, and unforeseen ways that shape their digital, material, affective, and embodied worlds. By analyzing how Netflix represents gender, race, and ethnicities, Gibbons Pyles explores how this new media phenomenon portrays and influences young people’s development and sense of self, and how streaming media pushes children and teens to particular ways of being in its interfaces, algorithms, and content. Drawing primarily on Bakhtinian, feminist, and female Black scholarship, her incisive analysis reveals how the new media streaming phenomenon molds children’s understandings of their ways of being in the world. Ideal for scholars and graduate students in literacy education, media studies, and communication, the text is an illuminating view into the hidden role of streaming services as an essential, complex component of literacy scholarship.

Comics and Videogames

Author : Andreas Rauscher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100022421X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Comics and Videogames written by Andreas Rauscher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-18 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first comprehensive study of the many interfaces shaping the relationship between comics and videogames. It combines in-depth conceptual reflection with a rich selection of paradigmatic case studies from contemporary media culture. The editors have gathered a distinguished group of international scholars working at the interstices of comics studies and game studies to explore two interrelated areas of inquiry: The first part of the book focuses on hybrid medialities and experimental aesthetics "between" comics and videogames; the second part zooms in on how comics and videogames function as transmedia expansions within an increasingly convergent and participatory media culture. The individual chapters address synergies and intersections between comics and videogames via a diverse set of case studies ranging from independent and experimental projects via popular franchises from the corporate worlds of DC and Marvel to the more playful forms of media mix prominent in Japan. Offering an innovative intervention into a number of salient issues in current media culture, Comics and Videogames will be of interest to scholars and students of comics studies, game studies, popular culture studies, transmedia studies, and visual culture studies.

Independent Videogames

Author : Paolo Ruffino
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000201155
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Independent Videogames written by Paolo Ruffino and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Independent Videogames investigates the social and cultural implications of contemporary forms of independent video game development. Through a series of case studies and theoretical investigations, it evaluates the significance of such a multi-faceted phenomenon within video game and digital cultures. A diverse team of scholars highlight the specificities of independence within the industry and the culture of digital gaming through case studies and theoretical questions. The chapters focus on labor, gender, distribution models and technologies of production to map the current state of research on independent game development. The authors also identify how the boundaries of independence are becoming opaque in the contemporary game industry – often at the cost of the claims of autonomy, freedom and emancipation that underlie the indie scene. The book ultimately imagines new and better narratives for a less exploitative and more inclusive videogame industry. Systematically mapping the current directions of a phenomenon that is becoming increasingly difficult to define and limit, this book will be a crucial resource for scholars and students of game studies, media history, media industries and independent gaming.

How Drama Activates Learning

Author : Michael Anderson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441194169
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book How Drama Activates Learning written by Michael Anderson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Drama Activates Learning: Contemporary Research and Practice draws together leaders in drama education and applied theatre from across the globe, including authors from Europe, North America and Australasia. It explores how learning can be activated when drama pedagogies and philosophies are applied across diverse contexts and for varied purposes. The areas explored include: Â· history Â· literacy, oracy and listening Â· health and human relationships education Â· science Â· democracy, social justice and global citizenship education Â· bullying and conflict management Â· criticality Â· digital technologies Â· additional language learning Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives, the contributors present case studies of drama and applied theatre work in school and community settings, providing rich descriptions of practice accompanied by detailed analysis underpinned by the theoretical perspectives of key thinkers from both within and beyond the field of drama.

Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment

Author : Stefan Göbel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540222839
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment written by Stefan Göbel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-06-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interactive Digital Storytelling has evolved as a prospering research topic banding together formerly disjointed disciplines stemming from the arts and humanities as well as computer science. It’s tied up with the notion of storytelling as an effective means for the communication of knowledge and social values since the existence of humankind. It also builds a bridge between current academic trends investigating and formalizing computer games, and developments towards the experience-based design of human-media interaction in general. In Darmstadt, a first national workshop on Digital Storytelling was organized by ZGDV e.V. in 2000, which at that time gave an impression about the breadth of this new research field for computer graphics (DISTEL 2000). An international follow-up was planned: the 1st International Conference on Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment (TIDSE 2003). Taking place in March 2003, it showed a more focussed range of research specifically on concepts and first pro- types for automated storytelling and autonomous characters, including modelling of emotions and the user experience. At TIDSE 2004, an established and still-growing community of researchers ga- ered together to exchange results and visions. This confirms the construction of a series of European conferences on the topic – together with the International Conf- ence on Virtual Storytelling, ICVS (conducted in 2001 and 2003 in France) – which will be further cultivated.

Recent Advances in Digital Media Impacts on Identity, Sexuality, and Relationships

Author : Wright, Michelle F.
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799810658
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Recent Advances in Digital Media Impacts on Identity, Sexuality, and Relationships written by Wright, Michelle F. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between adolescence and adulthood, individuals begin to explore themselves mentally and emotionally in an attempt to figure out who they are and where they fit in society. Social technologies in the modern age have ushered in an era where these evolving adolescents must circumvent the negative pressures of online influences while also still trying to learn how to be utterly independent. Recent Advances in Digital Media Impacts on Identity, Sexuality, and Relationships is a collection of critical reference materials that provides imperative research on identity exploration in emerging adults and examines how digital media is used to help explore and develop one’s identity. While highlighting topics such as mobile addiction, online intimacy, and cyber aggression, this publication explores a crucial developmental period in the human lifespan and how digital media hinders (or helps) maturing adults navigate life. This book is ideally designed for therapists, psychologists, sociologists, psychiatrists, researchers, educators, academicians, and professionals.

Youth, Identity, and Digital Media

Author : David Buckingham
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026252483X
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Youth, Identity, and Digital Media written by David Buckingham and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors discuss how growing up in a world saturated with digital media affects the development of young people's individual and social identities. As young people today grow up in a world saturated with digital media, how does it affect their sense of self and others? As they define and redefine their identities through engagements with technology, what are the implications for their experiences as learners, citizens, consumers, and family and community members? This addresses the consequences of digital media use for young people's individual and social identities. The contributors explore how young people use digital media to share ideas and creativity and to participate in networks that are small and large, local and global, intimate and anonymous. They look at the emergence of new genres and forms, from SMS and instant messaging to home pages, blogs, and social networking sites. They discuss such topics as “girl power” online, the generational digital divide, young people and mobile communication, and the appeal of the “digital publics” of MySpace, considering whether these media offer young people genuinely new forms of engagement, interaction, and communication. Contributors Angela Booker, danah boyd, Kirsten Drotner, Shelley Goldman, Susan C. Herring, Meghan McDermott, Claudia Mitchell, Gitte Stald, Susannah Stern, Sandra Weber, Rebekah Willett

Informal Learning and Digital Media

Author : Kirsten Drotner
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443817945
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Informal Learning and Digital Media written by Kirsten Drotner and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides an engaging overview of the ways in which digital media impact on current understandings of informal learning, and it offes a range of grounded studies of the changing relations between digital media and informal learning processes with a particular focus on young people. A variety of international scholars examine these processes across a number of sites and settings, from Japan to Finland and the USA, and they discuss their implications for education, ICT and media. The volume is an ideal resource for graduate students as well as for practitioners and policy-makers.

Digital Youth

Author : Kaveri Subrahmanyam
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441962786
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Digital Youth written by Kaveri Subrahmanyam and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth around the world are fittingly described as digital natives because of their comfort and skill with technological hardware and content. Recent studies indicate that an overwhelming majority of children and teenagers use the Internet, cell phones, and other mobile devices. Equipped with familiarity and unprecedented access, it is no wonder that adolescents consume, create, and share copious amounts of content. But is there a cost? Digital Youth: The Role of Media in Development recognizes the important role of digital tools in the lives of teenagers and presents both the risks and benefits of these new interactive technologies. From social networking to instant messaging to text messaging, the authors create an informative and relevant guidebook that goes beyond description to include developmental theory and implications. Also woven throughout the book is an international sensitivity and understanding that clarifies how, despite the widespread popularity of digital communication, technology use varies between groups globally. Other specific topics addressed include: Sexuality on the Internet. Online identity and self-presentation. Morality, ethics, and civic engagement. Technology and health. Violence, cyberbullying, and victimization. Excessive Internet use and addictive behavior. This comprehensive volume is a must-have reference for researchers, clinicians, and graduate students across such disciplines as developmental/clinical child/school psychology, social psychology, media psychology, medical and allied health professions, education, and social work.

Playful identities

Author : Valerie Frissen
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9048523036
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book Playful identities written by Valerie Frissen and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this edited volume, eighteen scholars examine the increasing role of digital media technologies in identity construction through play. Going beyond computer games, this interdisciplinary collection argues that present-day play and games are not only appropriate metaphors for capturing postmodern human identities, but are in fact the means by which people create their identity. From discussions of World of Warcraft and Foursquare to digital cartographies, the combined essays form a groundbreaking volume that features the most recent insights in play and game studies, media research, and identity studies.