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Playing utopia : futures in digital games /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Beil, Benjamin, 1980- (Editor ), Freyermuth, Gundolf S., 1955- (Editor ), Schmidt, Hanns Christian (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript-Verlag, [2019]
Colección:Studies of digital media culture ; v. 10.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 the latest media technologies. However, while dystopias are part of the standard gaming repertoire, games feature utopias much less frequently. Why?This anthology examines playful utopias from two perspectives. It investigates utopias in digital games as well as utopias of the digital game; that is, the role of ludic elements in scenarios of the future, as they are, for example, often found in the field of gamification as "promises of a better world."
Descripción Física:1 online resource (334 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:3839450500
9783839450505