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Games and Bereavement : How Video Games Represent Attachment, Loss and Grief / Sabine Harrer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harrer, Sabine, 1984- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (275 pages)
- Other Title:
- Knowledge Unlatched.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : transcript Verlag, 2018.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- How can videogames portray love and loss? »Games and Bereavement« answers this question by analysing five videogames and conducting a participatory design study with grievers. Sabine Harrer offers both theoretical and practical perspectives on videogames and grief and suggests a design model for videogames to include grievers into game development. Overall, she explores how videogames can be used as contemporary medium for personal storytelling.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- KU Select 2018: HSS Frontlist Books
- BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101989
- ISBN:
- 9783839444153
- Publisher Number:
- https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839444153
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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