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A Play of Bodies

Author : Brendan Keogh
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262345447
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book A Play of Bodies written by Brendan Keogh and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-04-06 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of the embodied engagement between the playing body and the videogame: how player and game incorporate each other. Our bodies engage with videogames in complex and fascinating ways. Through an entanglement of eyes-on-screens, ears-at-speakers, and muscles-against-interfaces, we experience games with our senses. But, as Brendan Keogh argues in A Play of Bodies, this corporal engagement goes both ways; as we touch the videogame, it touches back, augmenting the very senses with which we perceive. Keogh investigates this merging of actual and virtual bodies and worlds, asking how our embodied sense of perception constitutes, and becomes constituted by, the phenomenon of videogame play. In short, how do we perceive videogames? Keogh works toward formulating a phenomenology of videogame experience, focusing on what happens in the embodied engagement between the playing body and the videogame, and anchoring his analysis in an eclectic series of games that range from mainstream to niche titles. Considering smartphone videogames, he proposes a notion of co-attentiveness to understand how players can feel present in a virtual world without forgetting that they are touching a screen in the actual world. He discusses the somatic basis of videogame play, whether games involve vigorous physical movement or quietly sitting on a couch with a controller; the sometimes overlooked visual and audible pleasures of videogame experience; and modes of temporality represented by character death, failure, and repetition. Finally, he considers two metaphorical characters: the “hacker,” representing the hegemonic, masculine gamers concerned with control and configuration; and the “cyborg,” less concerned with control than with embodiment and incorporation.

Playing to Learn

Author : David Hutchison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031309473X
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Playing to Learn written by David Hutchison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-05-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing to Learn: Video Games in the Classroom is one of first practical resources that helps teachers integrate the study of video games into the classroom. The book is comprised of over 100 video game related activity ideas appropriate for Grades 4 to 12. Virtually every subject area is addressed. The book is augmented with several discussion articles contributed by scholars, journalists, and bloggers who routinely write about video games. In addition, the book includes dozens of activity modification and extension ideas, Web links, data tables, and photos.

Playing the Field

Author : Sascha Pöhlmann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110659409
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Playing the Field written by Sascha Pöhlmann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Studies has only gradually turned its attention to video games in the twenty-first century, even though the medium has grown into a cultural industry that is arguably the most important force in American and global popular culture today. There is an urgent need for a substantial theoretical reflection on how the field and its object of study relate to each other. This anthology, the first of its kind, seeks to address this need by asking a dialectic question: first, how may American Studies apply its highly diverse theoretical and methodological tools to the analysis of video games, and second, how are these theories and methods in turn affected by the games? The eighteen essays offer exemplary approaches to video games from the perspective of American cultural and historical studies as they consider a broad variety of topics: the US-American games industry, Puritan rhetoric, cultural geography, mobility and race, urbanity and space, digital sports, ludic textuality, survival horror and the eighteenth-century novel, gamer culture and neoliberalism, terrorism and agency, algorithm culture, glitches, theme parks, historical guilt, visual art, sonic meaning-making, and nonverbal gameplay.

The Handbook of Internet Studies

Author : Mia Consalvo
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 144434238X
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Internet Studies written by Mia Consalvo and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Internet Studies HANDBOOKS IN COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA “Highly recommended.” CHOICE “A state-of-the-art collection that represents and celebrates the diversity of theoretical and disciplinary approaches marking this brave new field. A new must-have reference book for Internet studies.” Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of Illinois “This indispensable volume reflects the complexity of Internet studies – indeed, the Internet itself – by bringing together a diverse set of voices, geographies, disciplines, and arguments. It is not only an important resource for practitioners, but will also spark the curiosity of those on the edges of the field, including humanists, social scientists, and engineers alike.” Michael Zimmer, University of Wisconsin “A comprehensive and useful volume that will appeal to students, teachers, and researchers. I highly recommend it to those who have been following the field since its emergence in the 1990s as well as to those new to the field.” Steve Jones, University of Illinois at Chicago “This handbook is landmark, documenting that Internet studies have now come of age.” Niels Ole Finnemann, Aarhus University To fully understand the impact and significance of the Internet, it is essential to consider its historical, societal, and cultural contexts. This handbook presents a wide range of original essays by established scholars in the field of Internet studies exploring the role of the Internet in modern societies, and the continuing development of its academic study.

Handbook of Research on Play Specialism Strategies to Prevent Pediatric Hospitalization Trauma

Author : Perasso, Giulia
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1668450690
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research on Play Specialism Strategies to Prevent Pediatric Hospitalization Trauma written by Perasso, Giulia and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2022-10-14 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospitalization can cause short-term to long-term issues to children’s biopsychosocial health. Play strategies have played a key role in preventing hospitalization trauma. Properly trained play specialists provide children with structured play activities that have proven to be effective in diminishing anxiety, depression, and negative emotions among in-patient children and their parents. These techniques are beneficial to ameliorating children’s and parents’ coping strategies and treatment compliance. However, discrepancies among countries’ healthcare systems in recognizing the value of play highlights the need for major awareness in the field. The Handbook of Research on Play Specialism Strategies to Prevent Pediatric Hospitalization Trauma spreads knowledge about the potential of playing to protect and increase children's health during hospitalization. The book focuses on play strategies counteracting pediatric patients’ trauma, anxiety, depression, and other biopsychosocial negative consequences. It discusses the rights of hospitalized children and the strengths of the play specialism approach. Covering topics such as chronically ill children, pediatric oncology, and culturally sustaining practices, this premier reference source is an excellent resource for child psychologists, psychotherapists, neuroscientists, pedagogists, psychiatrists, nurses, physicians, health sociologists, pediatricians, play specialists, students and faculty of higher education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.

Ready Player Two

Author : Shira Chess
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452954992
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Ready Player Two written by Shira Chess and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural stereotypes to the contrary, approximately half of all video game players are now women. A subculture once dominated by men, video games have become a form of entertainment composed of gender binaries. Supported by games such as Diner Dash, Mystery Case Files, Wii Fit, and Kim Kardashian: Hollywood—which are all specifically marketed toward women—the gamer industry is now a major part of imagining what femininity should look like. In Ready Player Two, media critic Shira Chess uses the concept of “Player Two”—the industry idealization of the female gamer—to examine the assumptions implicit in video games designed for women and how they have impacted gaming culture and the larger society. With Player Two, the video game industry has designed specifically for the feminine ideal: she is white, middle class, heterosexual, cis-gendered, and abled. Drawing on categories from time management and caregiving to social networking, consumption, and bodies, Chess examines how games have been engineered to shape normative ideas about women and leisure. Ready Player Two presents important arguments about how gamers and game developers must change their thinking about both women and games to produce better games, better audiences, and better industry practices. Ultimately, this book offers vital prescriptions for how one of our most powerful entertainment industries must evolve its ideas of women.

Hybrid Play

Author : Adriana de Souza e Silva
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000042359
Total Pages : 277 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 277 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.

Out of Play

Author : Michael A. Messner
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791479781
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Out of Play written by Michael A. Messner and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2008 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title From beer ads in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue to four-year-old boys and girls playing soccer; from male athletes' sexual violence against women to homophobia and racism in sport, Out of Play analyzes connections between gender and sport from the 1980s to the present. The book illuminates a wide range of contemporary issues in popular culture, children's sports, and women's and men's college and professional sports. Each chapter is preceded by a short introduction that lays out the context in which the piece was written. Drawing on his own memories as a former athlete, informal observations of his children's sports activities, and more formal research such as life-history interviews with athletes and content analyses of sports media, Michael A. Messner presents a multifaceted picture of gender constructed through an array of personalities, institutions, cultural symbols, and everyday interactions.

Secrets of Past Lives

Author : Wayne Cook
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 153203475X
Total Pages : 1119 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Secrets of Past Lives written by Wayne Cook and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 1119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group once counting millions of practitioners successfully uncovered fantastic amounts of information concerning the universe. Discovering anything about the universe outside our small world is an extreme rare event in history. Technically, such depth of information never occurred at any time on Earth, including data recovered by the Magi. This group, Scientology, recovered a profound amount of data, some of which is related within Secrets of Past Lives. Millions of practitioners independently acquired this information before evil destroyed them as a group. Before the downfall, hundreds of thousands of people and more recovered much of the secrets contained within this work. As there are no further people recovering in that church, there is no longer need to keep their secrets from you and from being lost for eternity. For the most part, this book is about you. Your history, your past and what is in your present. Also, Secrets reveals how ability and sanity at least equal to the sanest person you ever met this life can once again become your own without the need of that lost church. Sanity turns out to be nothing like most of us were led to believe. This book contains myriad aspects of this universe in its complexity and its utter simplicity never even suspected, such as what is going on in our world, the solar system, the local group and the entire universe. Revealed are a few great mysteries of science, secrets of Ancient Egypt, continental drift, why we are here, astronomical oddities and a vastly greater understanding of life. You will learn of who controls the core of space and why. You will find out why no one is in control of the remainder. You will discover what causes sunspots, variable densities of space, how our atmosphere smells and why. You will learn why magic does not work well unless it is fun. You will find out why gurus sit on mountaintops. You will find out why and who keep this vital and fascinating data from us. In our past, as we gazed at stars and saw magic and mystery, as we attempted to live on Earth, we fell to share opinions of what is reality from those who yelled the loudest. Our world became a twisted, warring, dangerous place no person should endure. This book dedicates to removing millennia of misinformation to set our sights once more on finding reality out of the ranting of Authority. To the chance of fulfilling our greatest desire: to discover a way to rejoin better worlds. Although reading these secrets is dangerous, you may key-in deeply, you will never look upon life the same again. It is not easy, it is not without risk, but wouldnt you rather know?

This is My Body

Author : William C. Springer
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761845140
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (451 download)

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Download or read book This is My Body written by William C. Springer and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2009 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to be human? This book explores that age-old question and provides a basis for rethinking the nature of all living beings. This book will leave you with a new understanding of yourself and your existence in the world as well as the nature of all beings.

Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures

Author : Jenny Sundén
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136499784
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures written by Jenny Sundén and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do gender and sexuality come to matter in online game cultures? Why is it important to explore "straight" versus "queer" contexts of play? And what does it mean to play together with others over time, as co-players and researchers? Gender and Sexuality in Online Game Cultures is a book about female players and their passionate encounters with the online game World of Warcraft and its player cultures. It takes seriously women’s passions in games, and as such draws attention to questions of pleasure in and desire for technology. The authors use a unique approach of what they term a "twin ethnography" that develops two parallel stories. Sveningsson studies "straight" game culture, and makes explicit that which is of the norm by exploring the experiences of female gamers in a male-dominated gaming context. Sundén investigates "queer" game culture through the queer potentials of mainstream World of Warcraft culture, as well as through the case of a guild explicitly defined as LGBT. Academic research on game culture is flourishing, yet feminist accounts of gender and sexuality in games are still in the making. Drawing on feminist notions of performance, performativity and positionality, as well as the recent turn to affect and phenomenology within cultural theory, the authors develop queer, feminist studies of online player cultures in ways that are situated and embodied.

Play and Democracy

Author : Alice Koubová
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000509915
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Play and Democracy written by Alice Koubová and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the complex and multi-layered relationships between democracy and play, presenting important new theoretical and empirical research. It builds new paradigmatic bridges between philosophical enquiry and fields of application across the arts, political activism, children’s play, education and political science. Play and Democracy addresses four principal themes. Firstly, it explores how the relationship between play and democracy can be conceptualized and how it is mirrored in questions of normativity, ethics and political power. Secondly, it examines different aspects of play in urban spaces, such as activism, aesthetic experience, happenings, political carnivals and performances. Thirdly, it offers examples and analyses of how playful artistic performances can offer democratic resistance to dominant power. And finally, it considers the paradoxes of play in both developing democratic sensibilities and resisting power in education. These themes are explored and interrogated in chapters covering topics such as aesthetic practice, pedagogy, diverse forms of activism, and urban experience, where play and playfulness become arenas in which to create the possibility of democratic practice and change. Adding extra depth to our understanding of the significance of play as a political, cultural and social power, this book is fascinating reading for any serious student or researcher with an interest in play, philosophy, politics, sociology, arts, sport or education.

The Politics of the Spectacle: Representation of Body, Gender and Discourse in Films

Author : Dr. K.M. Johnson
Publisher : Co-Text Publishers
ISBN 13 : 8195225330
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of the Spectacle: Representation of Body, Gender and Discourse in Films written by Dr. K.M. Johnson and published by Co-Text Publishers. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Body/Embodiment

Author : Phillip Vannini
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317173449
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Body/Embodiment written by Phillip Vannini and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body and experiences of embodiment have generated a rich and diverse sociological literature. This volume articulates and illustrates one major approach to the sociology of the body: symbolic interactionism, an increasingly prevalent theoretical base of contemporary sociology derived from the pragmatism of writers such as John Dewey, William James, Charles Peirce, Charles Cooley and George Herbert Mead. The authors argue that, from an interactionist perspective, the body is much more than a tangible, corporeal object - it is a vessel of great significance to the individual and society. From this perspective, body, self and social interaction are intimately interrelated and constantly reconfigured. The collection constitutes a unique anthology of empirical research on the body, from health and illness to sexuality, from beauty and imagery to bodily performance in sport and art, and from mediated communication to plastic surgery. The contributions are informed by innovative interactionist theory, offering fresh insights into one of the fastest growing sub-disciplines of sociology and cultural studies.

Rethinking Play as Pedagogy

Author : Sophie Alcock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429844522
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Play as Pedagogy written by Sophie Alcock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conceptualisation and practice of play is considered core to early childhood pedagogy. In this essential text, contributors from a range of countries and cultures explore how play might be defined, encouraged and interpreted in early childhood settings and practice. Rethinking Play as Pedagogy provides a fresh perspective of play as a purposeful pedagogy offering multi-layered opportunities for learning and development. Written to provoke group discussion and extend thinking, opportunities for international comparison, points for reflection and editorial provocations, this volume will help students engage critically with a variety of understandings of play, and diverse approaches to harnessing children’s natural propensity to play. Considering the role of the learning environment, the practitioner, the wider community, and policy, chapters are divided into four key sections which reflect major influences on practice and pedagogy: Being alongside children Those who educate Embedding families and communities Working with systems Offering in-depth discussion of diverse perceptions, potentials and practicalities of early childhood play, this text will enhance understanding, support self-directed learning, and provoke and transform thinking at both graduate and postgraduate levels, particularly in the field of early childhood education and care, for students, educators, integrated service providers and policy makers.

Playing with Feelings

Author : Aubrey Anable
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452956812
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Playing with Feelings written by Aubrey Anable and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How gaming intersects with systems like history, bodies, and code Why do we so compulsively play video games? Might it have something to do with how gaming affects our emotions? In Playing with Feelings, scholar Aubrey Anable applies affect theory to game studies, arguing that video games let us “rehearse” feelings, states, and emotions that give new tones and textures to our everyday lives and interactions with digital devices. Rather than thinking about video games as an escape from reality, Anable demonstrates how video games—their narratives, aesthetics, and histories—have been intimately tied to our emotional landscape since the emergence of digital computers. Looking at a wide variety of video games—including mobile games, indie games, art games, and games that have been traditionally neglected by academia—Anable expands our understanding of the ways in which these games and game studies can participate in feminist and queer interventions in digital media culture. She gives a new account of the touchscreen and intimacy with our mobile devices, asking what it means to touch and be touched by a game. She also examines how games played casually throughout the day create meaningful interludes that give us new ways of relating to work in our lives. And Anable reflects on how games allow us to feel differently about what it means to fail. Playing with Feelings offers provocative arguments for why video games should be seen as the most significant art form of the twenty-first century and gives the humanities passionate, incisive, and daring arguments for why games matter.

Game Cultures

Author : Jon Dovey
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335224873
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Game Cultures written by Jon Dovey and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2006-05-16 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the critical concepts and debates that are shaping the emerging field of game studies. Exploring games in the context of cultural studies and media studies, it analyses computer games as the most popular contemporary form of new media production and consumption. The book: Argues for the centrality of play in redefining reading, consuming and creating culture Offers detailed research into the political economy of games to generate a model of new media production Examines the dynamics of power in relation to both the production and consumption of computer games This is key reading for students, academics and industry practitioners in the fields of cultural studies, new media, media studies and game studies, as well as human-computer interaction and cyberculture.