Violence | Perception | Video Games : : New Directions in Game Research / / ed. by Curtis L. Maughan, Michael S. Debus, Federico Alvarez Igarzábal.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2019
• Funder: European Research Council
• HerausgeberIn: Alvarez Igarzábal, Federico,; Debus, Michael S.,; Maughan, Curtis L.,
• MitwirkendeR: Alvarez, Alberto,; Bakk, Agnes K.,; Boccia, Alex,; Brandis, Rüdiger,; Debus, Michael S.,; Ferguson, Christopher J.,; Fetzer, Frank,; Freyermuth, Gundolf S.,; Igarzábal, Federico Alvarez,; Maughan, Curtis L.,; Mohammad-Hadi, Nikolay,; Mukae, Shunsuke,; Nguyen, Ahn-Thu,; Panic-Cidic, Natali,; Price, Derek,; Roth, Christian,; Schnaars, Cornelia J.,; Vozaru, Miruna,; Wolf, Leonie,
• Author: European Research Council
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Bild und Bit ; 11
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (230 p.)

This volume compiles papers from the Young Academics Workshop at the Clash of Realities conferences of 2017 and 2018. The 2017 workshop - Perceiving Video Games - explored the video game medium by focusing on perception and meaning-making processes. The 2018 workshop - Reframing the Violence and Video Games Debate - transcended misleading claims that link video games and violent behavior by offering a range of fresh topical perspectives. From BA students to postdoctoral researchers, the young academics of this anthology stem from a spectrum of backgrounds, including game studies, game design, and phenomenology. This volume also features an entry by renowned psychologist Christopher Ferguson.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Reframing the Violence and Video Games Debate -- Real Violence Versus Imaginary Guns. Why Reframing the Debate on Video Game Violence is Necessary -- Avatars Don't Kill People, Players Do! Actor-Network-Theory, Mediation, and Violence in Avatar-Based Videogames -- The (American) Way of Experiencing Video Game Violence -- Video Game Violence from the Perspective of Cognitive Psychology. Role Identification and Role Distancing in A WAY OUT -- The Playing Voyeur. Voyeurism and Affect in the Age of Video Games -- The Spectacle of Murder. Over-Aestheticized Depiction of Death in Horror Video Games -- Designing Rituals Instead of Ceremonies. The Meaningful Performance of Violence in Video Games -- Damage over Time. Structural Violence and Climate Change in Video Games -- Perceiving Video Games -- A Cyborg, If You Like. Technological Intentionality in Avatar-Based Single Player Video Games -- Player Perception of Gameworlds and Game Systems: Load Theory as Game Analytic Tool -- On Character Analysis and Blending Theory. Why You Cried at the End of THE LAST OF US -- Depression and Digital Games. An Investigation of Existing Uses of Therapy Games -- Perceived Behaviors of Personality-Driven -- From Pixelated Blood and Fixed Camera Perspectives to VR Experience. Tracing the Diversification of Survival Horror Video Games and Their Altered Mode of Perception -- Survival Horror and Masochism. A Digression from the Modern Scopic Regime -- Epiphany Through Kinaesthetics. Unfolding Storyworlds in Immersive Analog Spaces -- Authors