Playing Utopia : : Futures in Digital Games /

Playing Utopia : : Futures in Digital Games / / ed. by Hanns Christian Schmidt, Benjamin Beil, Gundolf S. Freyermuth.

Media narratives inform our ideas of the future - and Games are currently making a significant contribution to this medial reservoir. On the one hand, games demonstrate a particular propensity for fantastic and futuristic scenarios. On the other hand, they often serve as an experimental field for th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2019
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TH Köln-University of Technology, Arts, and Sciences
MitwirkendeR:
Beil, Benjamin,
Czauderna, André,
Dippel, Anne,
Farca, Gerald,
Freyermuth, Gundolf S.,
Harvey, Alison,
Hawranke, Thomas,
Koenitz, Hartmut,
Schmidt, Hanns Christian,
Sezen, Tonguc Ibrahim,
Wildt, Lars de,
HerausgeberIn:
Beil, Benjamin,
Freyermuth, Gundolf S.,
Schmidt, Hanns Christian,
:
TH Köln-University of Technology, Arts, and Sciences
Place / Publishing House:Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Bild und Bit ; 10
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Physical Description:1 online resource (332 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Utopian Futures. A Brief History of Their Conception and Representation in Modern Media-From Literature to Digital Games
  • Utopias in Digital Games
  • Tinkering with Political Utopias and Dystopias in DEMOCRACY 3. An Educational Perspective
  • The Concept of Utopia in Digital Games
  • "Everything is true; nothing is permitted". Utopia, Religion and Conspiracy in ASSASSIN'S CREED
  • Beyond the Holonovel. The Holographic Interactive Digital Entertainment Utopia of STAR TREK
  • Utopias of Digital Games
  • Feminist Interventions for Better Futures of Digital Games
  • Ludopian Visions. On the Speculative Potential of Games in Times of Algorithmic Work and Play
  • Playful Utopias. Sandboxes for the Future
  • Building Utopia, Brick by Brick? Selling Subversiveness in LEGO DIMENSIONS
  • We have won this battle ;) Modding and Swapping as a Utopian Video Game Practice
  • The Utopia of Getting Over It
  • Contributors

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