Benjamin Beil / Gundolf S. Freyermuth / Hanns Christian Schmidt (eds.)

Playing Utopia

Futures in Digital Games

Media narratives inform our ideas of the future – and Games are currently making a significant contribution to this medial reservoir. On the one hand, Games demonstrate a particular propensity for fantastic and futuristic scenarios. On the other hand, they often serve as an experimental field for the latest media technologies. However, while dystopias are part of the standard gaming repertoire, Games feature utopias much less frequently. Why?

This anthology examines playful utopias from two perspectives. It investigates utopias in digital Games as well as utopias of the digital game; that is, the role of ludic elements in scenarios of the future.

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30 October 2019, 332 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8394-5050-5
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Author(s): Benjamin Beil / Gundolf S. Freyermuth / Hanns Christian Schmidt (eds.)
Book title: Playing Utopia Futures in Digital Games
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Pages: 332
Features: 17 Farbabbildungen, 26 SW-Abbildungen

ISBN: 978-3-8394-5050-5
DOI: 10.14361/9783839450505
Commodity Group: 1744
BIC-Code: JFD
BISAC-Code: SOC052000
THEMA-Code: JBCT1

Release date: 30 October 2019
Topics: Popkultur, Medien
Readership: Media Studies, Game Studies

Keywords/Tags: Digital Games, Utopia, Future, Playfulness, Media, Popular Culture, Computer Games, Media Aesthetics, Digital Media, Media Studies