Playful Virtual Violence An Ethnography of Emotional Practices in Video Games

• Main Author: Bareither, Christoph (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2020
• Series: Social Sciences
• Subjects: Cultural studies; Social & cultural history; history of ideas; social sciences
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Violence in video games has been a controversial object of public discourse for several decades. Building upon an extensive ethnographic study of players' emotional practices,this Element provides new insights into the complexity and pleasures of player experiences, contributing to societal and...