Mental Health | Atmospheres | Video Games : New Directions in Game Research II / / ed. by Jimena Aguilar Rodríguez, Felix Zimmermann, Miruna Vozaru, Su-Jin Song, Curtis L. Maughan, Michael S. Debus, Federico Alvarez Igarzábal

• Pubblicazione: Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , [2022]; ©2022
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 pages)
• Soggetto topico: Social sciences; Mass media
• Soggetto non controllato: Ambience; Atmosphere; Computer Games; Media Aesthetics; Media Studies; Media; Medicine; Mental Health; Play; Popular Culture
• Persona (resp. second.): Aguilar RodríguezJimena; AllerKatja; Alvarez IgarzábalFederico; Augusto BordiniRogério; BühlerNils; DebusMichael S.; DunlapKelli; FizekSonia; FreyermuthGundolf S.; Jung JohansenJonathan; KornOliver; LeichterMagdalena; Lundedal NielsenRune Kristian; MaughanCurtis L.; NguyenAnh-Thu; NickelVadim; Panic-CidicNatali; RedeckerBjörn; SongSu-Jin; VozaruMiruna; ZimmermannFelix
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Mental Health -- Play, Games, Mental Health -- Gaming Disorder – a “lousy” and “meaningless” label -- Protecting the Youth by Controlling the Ludic -- Mindspaces -- Reclaiming Agency -- Digital Fictions: Towards Designing Narrative Driven Games as Therapy -- Gamification and Mobile Apps: Allies in Reducing Loneliness Among Young Adults -- Mental Health of Twitch Streamers During COVID-19 -- The End is Never The End is Never The End -- Atmospheres -- Introduction: Slow Play -- Cool Games, Cool Japan -- “Wind's howling.” Meteorological Phenomena as Atmospheres in Digital Games -- I Don’t Feel at Home in this Game Anymore -- Generative Atmospheres -- Sounding the Atmosphere -- Systemically Implied Atmospheres -- Conclusion: Toward an Atmospherology of Digital Games -- Contributors
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• ISBN: 3-8394-6264-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910831817203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Bild und Bit.