Paratextualizing Games

Investigations on the Paraphernalia and Peripheries of Play
1. published
ISBN: 978-3-8376-5421-9
Verlag: transcript

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 406 Seiten, Kartoniert, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 627 g

Reihe: Bild und Bit. Studien zur digitalen Medienkultur

Gaming no longer only takes place as a ›closed interactive experience‹ in front of TV screens, but also as broadcast on streaming platforms or as cultural events in exhibition centers and e-sport arenas. The popularization of new technologies, forms of expression, and online services has had a considerable influence on the academic and journalistic discourse about games. This anthology examines which paratexts gaming cultures have produced – i.e., in which forms and formats and through which channels we talk (and write) about games – as well as the way in which paratexts influence the development of games. How is knowledge about games generated and shaped today and how do boundaries between (popular) criticism, journalism, and scholarship have started to blur? In short: How does the paratext change the text?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beil, Benjamin

Freyermuth, Gundolf S.

Schmidt, Hanns Christian

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation

Über Autor(innen)

Schmidt, Hanns Christian
Hanns Christian Schmidt is a professor for Game Design at Macromedia University for Applied Sciences (Cologne) and a research assistant at the Institute of Media Culture and Theater at the University of Cologne.

Beil, Benjamin
Benjamin Beil (Prof. Dr. phil.) is Professor for Media Studies & Digital Culture at the Department of Media Culture & Theatre at the University of Cologne.

Freyermuth, Gundolf S.
Gundolf S. Freyermuth (Prof. Dr. phil.) is Professor of Media and Game Studies and founding co-director at the Cologne Game Lab of TH Koeln-University of Technology, Arts and Sciences, as well as Professor of Comparative Media Studies at the ifs international film school of Cologne.

Benjamin Beil (Prof. Dr.) is a professor of media studies and digital culture at the Department of Media Culture and Theater of the University of Cologne, Germany. His research interests include game studies, inter- and transmediality, television series, and participatory cultures.
Gundolf S. Freyermuth (Prof. Dr.) is a professor of media and game studies and a founding director of the Cologne Game Lab at TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences in Cologne. He also teaches comparative media studies at the ifs international film school Cologne. His research interests include digital games, audiovisuality, transmediality, and network culture.
Hanns Christian Schmidt (Dr.) works as a research assistant at the Institute of Media Culture and Theater (University of Cologne) and within the project 'Literacy of Play / Literacy of Games - imparting media competence within analogue, digital and hybrid games'.