Gameworlds: Virtual Media and Children's Everyday Play
Giddings, Seth,
Gameworlds: Virtual Media and Children's Everyday Play Seth Giddings. - Bloomsbury Academic 2016 - 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-174) and index.
Virtual and actual worlds -- Virtual media and children's everyday play -- Microethology : methods for studying gameworlds -- Media worlds -- Soft worlds : play with computers -- Play grounds : the material and immaterial in play -- Real worlds : realities, virtualities and the protopolitics of play.
"Game studies is a rapidly developing field across the world, with a growing number of dedicated courses addressing video games and digital play as significant phenomena in contemporary everyday life and media cultures. Seth Giddings looks to fill a gap by focusing on the relationship between the actual and virtual worlds of play in everyday life. He addresses both the continuities and differences between digital play and longer-established modes of play (role-play, play with toys, etc.). The 'gameworlds' title indicates both the virtual world designed into the videogame and the wider environments in which play is manifested: social relationships between players; hardware and software; between the virtual worlds of the game and the media universes they extend (e.g. Harry Potter, Lego, Star Wars); and the gameworlds generated by children's imaginations and creativity (through talk and role-play, drawings and outdoor play). The gameworld raises questions about who, and what, is in play. Drawing on recent theoretical work in science and technology studies and new media studies, a key theme is the material and embodied character of these gameworlds and their components (players' bodies, computer hardware, toys, virtual physics, the physical environment, etc.). Gameworlds uses each chapter to discuss small-scale ethnographic studies and close analyses of particular videogames, with shorter sections addressing the theoretical and conceptual issues that arise. Building on detailed case studies, this is the first book to explore the nature of play in the virtual worlds of video games and how this play relates to, and crosses over into, everyday play in the actual world"--
9781623566326 1623566320 9781501318290 1501318292
40023995603
2014009329
GBB4A5407 bnb
016870171 Uk
Video games--Social aspects.
Virtual reality.
Play environments.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Media Studies.
EDUCATION--Non-Formal Education.
Play environments.
Video games--Social aspects.
Virtual reality.
GV1469.34.S52 / G53 2014
794.8083 / SID-B-11313
Gameworlds: Virtual Media and Children's Everyday Play Seth Giddings. - Bloomsbury Academic 2016 - 184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-174) and index.
Virtual and actual worlds -- Virtual media and children's everyday play -- Microethology : methods for studying gameworlds -- Media worlds -- Soft worlds : play with computers -- Play grounds : the material and immaterial in play -- Real worlds : realities, virtualities and the protopolitics of play.
"Game studies is a rapidly developing field across the world, with a growing number of dedicated courses addressing video games and digital play as significant phenomena in contemporary everyday life and media cultures. Seth Giddings looks to fill a gap by focusing on the relationship between the actual and virtual worlds of play in everyday life. He addresses both the continuities and differences between digital play and longer-established modes of play (role-play, play with toys, etc.). The 'gameworlds' title indicates both the virtual world designed into the videogame and the wider environments in which play is manifested: social relationships between players; hardware and software; between the virtual worlds of the game and the media universes they extend (e.g. Harry Potter, Lego, Star Wars); and the gameworlds generated by children's imaginations and creativity (through talk and role-play, drawings and outdoor play). The gameworld raises questions about who, and what, is in play. Drawing on recent theoretical work in science and technology studies and new media studies, a key theme is the material and embodied character of these gameworlds and their components (players' bodies, computer hardware, toys, virtual physics, the physical environment, etc.). Gameworlds uses each chapter to discuss small-scale ethnographic studies and close analyses of particular videogames, with shorter sections addressing the theoretical and conceptual issues that arise. Building on detailed case studies, this is the first book to explore the nature of play in the virtual worlds of video games and how this play relates to, and crosses over into, everyday play in the actual world"--
9781623566326 1623566320 9781501318290 1501318292
40023995603
2014009329
GBB4A5407 bnb
016870171 Uk
Video games--Social aspects.
Virtual reality.
Play environments.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Media Studies.
EDUCATION--Non-Formal Education.
Play environments.
Video games--Social aspects.
Virtual reality.
GV1469.34.S52 / G53 2014
794.8083 / SID-B-11313
