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The dark side of game play : controversial issues in playful environments / edited by Torill Elvira Mortensen, Jonas Linderoth, and Ashley ML Brown.
Van Pelt Library GV1469.34.P79 D37 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge advances in game studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Video games--Psychological aspects.
- Video games.
- Video games--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Violence in video games.
- Genre:
- Video games.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2015.
- Contents:
- Dark play : the aesthetics of controversial playfulness / Torill Elvira Mortensen and Jonas Linderoth
- Analyzing game controversies : a historical approach to moral panics
- And digital games / Faltin Karlsen
- Of heroes and henchmen : the conventions of killing generic
- Expendables in digital games / René Glas
- Don't forget to die : a software update is available for the death drive / Emily Flynn-Jones
- Killing digital children : design, discourse and player agency / Björn Sjöblom
- Little evils : subversive uses of children's games / Frans Mäyrä
- Darkly playing others / Miguel Sicart
- Three defences for the fourteen-inch barbed penis : darkly playing with morals, ethics and sexual violence / Ashley ML Brown
- Exploring the limits of play : a case study of representations of nazism in games / Adam Chapman and Jonas Linderoth
- Keeping the balance : morals at the dark side / Torill Elvira Mortensen
- Fabricated innocence : on how people can be lured into feel bad
- Games / Staffan Björk
- Massively multiplayer dark play : treacherous play in EVE online / Marcus Carter
- Dark play in dishonored / Kristine Jørgensen
- Sonic descents : musical dark play in survival and psychological
- Horror / Isabella van Elferen
- Boosting, glitching and modding call of duty : assertive dark play
- Manifestations, communities, pleasures and organic resilience / Alan Meades.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781138827288
- 1138827282
- OCLC:
- 898926339
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