Mental Health | Atmospheres | Video Games New Directions in Game Research II

• Other Authors: Aguilar Rodríguez, Jimena (Editor), Alvarez Igarzábal, Federico (Editor), Debus, Michael S. (Editor), Maughan, Curtis L. (Editor), Song, Su-Jin (Editor), Vozaru, Miruna (Editor), Zimmermann, Felix (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2022
• Series: Bild und Bit. Studien zur digitalen Medienkultur
• Subjects: Media studies; Medicine: general issues; Video Games; Mental Health; Atmosphere; Ambience; Play; Media; Popular Culture; Medicine; Computer Games; Media Aesthetics; Media Studies
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Summary

Gaming has never been disconnected from reality. When we engage with ever more lavish virtual worlds, something happens to us. The game imposes itself on us and influences how we feel about it, the world, and ourselves. How do games accomplish this and to what end? The contributors explore the video game as an atmospheric medium of hitherto unimagined potential. Is the medium too powerful, too influential? A danger to our mental health or an ally through even the darkest of times? This volume compiles papers from the Young Academics Workshop at the Clash of Realities conferences of 2019 and 2020 to provide answers to these questions.

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (262 p.)

ISBN

9783839462645
9783837662641
9783732862641

Access

Open Access