The Pokémon Go phenomenon : essays on public play in contested spaces / edited by Jamie Henthorn, [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henthorn, Jamie, .

Contributor:

Henthorn, Jamie, 1983- editor.

Kulak, Andrew, editor.

Purzycki, Kristopher, editor.

Vie, Stephanie, editor.

Series:

Studies in gaming.

Studies in gaming

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pokémon Go (Game)--Social aspects.

Pokémon Go (Game).

Pokémon Go (Game)--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

2019.

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]

Summary:

"Pokémon Go is not just play—the game has had an impact on public spaces, social circles and technology, suggesting new ways of experiencing our world. This collection of new essays explores what Pokémon Go can tell us about how and why we play. Covering a range of topics from mobile hardware and classroom applications to social conflict and urban planning, the contributors approach Pokémon Go from both practical and theoretical angles, anticipating the impact play will have on our digitally augmented world." --Publisher's description.

Contents:

Not just play: spaces of contention / Jamie Henthorn, Andrew Kulak, Kristopher Purzycki and Stephanie Vie

Part One: How we play. Gaming across the years: Gotta catch 'em all together / Wendi Sierra and Ginger Burgoon

Playing alone, together: Pokémon Go, public mobility and locational privacy / Ryan S. Eanes and Claire Y. Van Den Broek

The world's most popular fitness app / Jamie Henthorn

Augmented reality design through experience architecture / Jill Anne Morris

Part Two: Why we play. Rhetorical augmentation: public play, place and persuasion in Pokémon Go / Jason Chew Kit Tham and Deondre Smiles

To be the very best ... you gotta pay: motivation, resources and monetizing frustration / Eric Murnane

Addiction and the apocalypse: the pathology of Pokémon Go / Kristen L. Cole and Alexis Pulos

PokéStories: on narrative and the construction of augmented reality / Cody Mejeur

Part Three: The impact of play. Raid pass: constitutive capital flows for augmented reality / Peter Schaefer and Margaret Schwartz

For anatopistic places: Pokémon Go vs. Milwaukee County / Kristopher Purzycki

A tale of two screens: space, ubiquitous computing and locative gaming / Luiz Adolfo Andrade

Placemaking across the digital-physical divide: location-based mobile gameplay as a relay in the emergence of singularities / William Heili, Chen Xu and Nicholas Jon Crane.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4766-3651-6