Gallagher Videogames, Identity, and Digital Subjectivity

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-315-39092-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 222 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Game Studies

This book argues that games offer a means of coming to terms with a world that is being transformed by digital technologies. As blends of software and fiction, videogames are uniquely capable of representing and exploring the effects of digitization on day-to-day life. By modeling and incorporating new technologies (from artificial intelligence routines and data mining techniques to augmented reality interfaces), and by dramatizing the implications of these technologies for understandings of identity, nationality, sexuality, health and work, games encourage us to playfully engage with these issues in ways that traditional media cannot.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gallagher, Rob

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Hobbies & Spiele
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Computerspiele, Internetspiele

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Data Subjects: Identity as Information

2. Private Subjects: Scandal and Surveillance

3. Beastly Subjects: Bodies and Breeding

4. Synthetic Subjects: Encounters with AI

5. Mobile Subjects: Traversing Digital Spaces

6. Saleable Subjects: Negotiating Networked Economies

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Rob Gallagher is a postdoctoral researcher at King's College London, UK