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Games and Bereavement
How Video Games Represent Attachment, Loss, and Grief
Sabine Harrer explores videogames' capacity to model attachment, loss and grief. She proposes an approach to videogame design with and for grievers.
Games and Rules
Game Mechanics for the »Magic Circle«
Why do we play games? What are the rules for the Magic Circle? This book takes a closer look at the motivational system that is the game mechanics.
Digital Environments
Ethnographic Perspectives across Global Online and Offline Spaces
Digital technology has already permeated the physical world. This volume presents innovative forms of ethnographic research into the digital realm.
Performing the Digital
Performativity and Performance Studies in Digital Cultures
»Performing the Digital« maps the registers of performance at work in digital cultures and seeks to place performance studies in today's media landscapes.
Digital Tools in Media Studies
Analysis and Research. An Overview
This volume closes a research gap by providing an overview of the digital toolbox of media studies.
Thumb Culture
The Meaning of Mobile Phones for Society
Mobile communication has an increasing impact on people's lives and society. Ubiquitous media influence the way users relate to their surroundings, and data services like text and pictures lead to a culture shaped by thumbs. Representing several years of research into the social and cultural effects of mobile phone use, this volume assembles the fascinating approaches and new insights of leading scientists and practitioners. The book contains the results of a first international survey on the social consequences of mobile phones. It provides a comprehensive inventory of today's issues and an outlook in mobile media, society and their future study.