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Title Ecogames Playful Perspectives on the Climate Crisis Laura op de Beke, Joost Raessens, Stefan Werning, Gerald Farca
Published Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press

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Description 1 online resource (572 pages) illustrations
Series Green Media
Green Media
Contents Ecogames: An Introduction -- Laura op de Beke, Joost Raessens, and Stefan Werning Part I. Today's Challenges: Games for Change Part II. Future Worlds: New Imaginaries Part III. The Nonhuman Turn Part IV. Critical Metagaming Practices Index of Games Index of Names Index of Subjects
Summary With the climate crisis and its repercussions becoming more and more tangible, games are increasingly participating in the production, circulation, and interrogation of environmental assumptions, using both explicit and implicitly ways of framing the crisis. Whether they are providing new spaces to imagine and practice alternative forms of living, or reproducing ecomodernist fantasies, games as well as player cultures are increasingly tuned in to the most pressing environmental concerns. This book brings together chapters by a diverse group of established and emerging authors to develop a growing body of scholarship that explores the shape, impact, and cultural context of ecogames. The book comprises four thematic sections, Today's Challenges: Games for Change, Future Worlds: New Imaginaries, The Nonhuman Turn, and Critical Metagaming Practices. Each section explores different aspects of ecocritical engagement in and through games. As a result, the book's comprehensive scope covers a variety of angles, methodologies, and case studies, significantly expanding the field of green media studies
Analysis Film, Media, and Communication
FMC
Contemporary Society
CONTEMP SOC
Cultural Studies
CULTURAL
Environment and Sustainability
ENVIR & SUST
Game Studies
GAME
Media Studies
MEDIA
Ecogames, games for change, future worlds, nonhuman epistemologies, metagaming practices
Notes "Amsterdam University Press"
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Subject Game theory.
Environmentalism.
Game theory.
Social impact of environmental issues.
GAMES / Video & Electronic.
NATURE / Ecology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
Narrative theme: Environmental issues.
Media studies: internet, digital media and society.
Game theory.
Form Electronic book
Author op de Beke, Laura editor
Raessens, Joost editor
Werning, Stefan editor
Farca, Gerald editor
ISBN 9048557216
9789048557219