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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgements / Beil, Benjamin / Freyermuth, Gundolf S. / Schmidt, Hanns Christian
  • Utopian Futures. A Brief History of Their Conception and Representation in Modern Media-From Literature to Digital Games / Freyermuth, Gundolf S.
  • Utopias in Digital Games
  • Tinkering with Political Utopias and Dystopias in DEMOCRACY 3. An Educational Perspective / Czauderna, André
  • The Concept of Utopia in Digital Games / Farca, Gerald
  • "Everything is true; nothing is permitted". Utopia, Religion and Conspiracy in ASSASSIN'S CREED / Wildt, Lars de
  • Beyond the Holonovel. The Holographic Interactive Digital Entertainment Utopia of STAR TREK / Sezen, Tonguc Ibrahim
  • Utopias of Digital Games
  • Feminist Interventions for Better Futures of Digital Games / Harvey, Alison
  • Ludopian Visions. On the Speculative Potential of Games in Times of Algorithmic Work and Play / Dippel, Anne
  • Playful Utopias. Sandboxes for the Future / Koenitz, Hartmut
  • Building Utopia, Brick by Brick? Selling Subversiveness in LEGO DIMENSIONS / Schmidt, Hanns Christian
  • We have won this battle ;) Modding and Swapping as a Utopian Video Game Practice / Hawranke, Thomas
  • The Utopia of Getting Over It / Beil, Benjamin
  • Contributors.