1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789717903321

Autore

Calleja Gordon

Titolo

In-game : from immersion to incorporation / / Gordon Calleja

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011

ISBN

0-262-29454-0

1-283-30270-5

9786613302700

0-262-29545-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Disciplina

794.8

Soggetti

Video games - Psychological aspects

Video gamers - Psychology

Virtual reality - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Games will be games -- Immersion -- The player involvement model -- Kinaesthetic involvement -- Spatial involvement -- Shared involvement -- Narrative involvement -- Affective involvement -- Ludic involvement -- Incorporation.

Sommario/riassunto

An investigation of what makes digital games engaging to players and a reexamination of the concept of immersion.Digital games offer a vast range of engaging experiences, from the serene exploration of beautifully rendered landscapes to the deeply cognitive challenges presented by strategic simulations to the adrenaline rush of competitive team-based shoot-outs. Digital games enable experiences that are considerably different from a reader's engagement with literature or a moviegoer's experience of a movie. In In-Game, Gordon Calleja examines what exactly it is that makes digital games so uniquely involving and offers a new, more precise, and game-specific formulation of this involvement. One of the most commonly yet vaguely deployed concepts in the industry and academia alike is immersion--a player's sensation of inhabiting the space represented onscreen. Overuse of this term has diminished its analytical value and confused its meaning, both in analysis and design. Rather than conceiving of



immersion as a single experience, Calleja views it as blending different experiential phenomena afforded by involving gameplay. He proposes a framework (based on qualitative research) to describe these phenomena: the player involvement model. This model encompasses two constituent temporal phases--the macro, representing offline involvement, and the micro, representing moment-to-moment involvement during gameplay--as well as six dimensions of player involvement: kinesthetic, spatial, shared, narrative, affective, and ludic. The intensified and internalized experiential blend can culminate in incorporation--a concept that Calleja proposes as an alternative to the problematic immersion. Incorporation, he argues, is a more accurate metaphor, providing a robust foundation for future research and design.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910404115403321

Titolo

The Bureaucratic Production of Difference : Ethos and Ethics in Migration Administrations / Julia M. Eckert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2020

ISBN

9783839451045

3839451043

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (182 p.)

Collana

Kultur und soziale Praxis

Disciplina

300

Soggetti

Migration

Bureaucracy

Morality

Europe

Politics

Cultural Anthropology

Administration

European Politics

Sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1 Contents    5 The Office    7 Keeping Numbers Low in the Name of Fairness    27 The Asylum Procedure in Border Detention    59 Moral Economy and Knowledge Production in a Security Bureaucracy    85 Governing the Boundaries of the Commonwealth    113 Functional Inconsistencies    135 The Economy of Detainability    155 Authors    175

Sommario/riassunto

In the context of the ever-increasing political problematization of migration in Europe, agencies charged with migrant administration create diverse categories of difference to distinguish between the »deserving migrant« and the illegal one: They assess the detainability or the credibility of asylum seekers, the danger posed by Islamic organizations, and make situational decisions that determine whether migration or labour law applies to individual agricultural workers. In this book, each chapter analyses how organizational interpretations of the common good shape bureaucratic practices. Together, these ethnographic analyses reveal how migration policies in different European countries take shape in administrative practice.