Playful Materialities

The Stuff That Games Are Made Of
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-8376-6200-9
Verlag: transcript

Buch, Englisch, 404 Seiten, Kartoniert, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 624 g

Reihe: Studies of digital media culture

Game culture and material culture have always been closely linked. Analog forms of rule-based play (ludus) would hardly be conceivable without dice, cards, and game boards. In the act of free play (paidia), children as well as adults transform simple objects into multifaceted toys in an almost magical way. Even digital play is suffused with material culture: Games are not only mediated by technical interfaces, which we access via hardware and tangible peripherals. They are also subject to material hybridization, paratextual framing, and processes of de-, and re-materialization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beil, Benjamin

Freyermuth, Gundolf S.

Schmidt, Hanns Christian

Rusch, Raven

Fachgebiete

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.

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.

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.