Playing with Virtuality

Benjamin Bigl
Sebastian Stoppe (Eds.)

Playing with Virtuality

Theories and Methods of Computer Game Studies

Computer games have fascinated millions of users for more than 30 years. Today, they constitute the strongest sector in media-entertainment industry and are part of the digital everyday life experience. Computer game studies require a deep understanding of functional and communicational mechanisms of games that support the player’s immersion in virtual worlds.

Unfortunately, the discussion and the academic research about usage and effects of computer games mostly takes place isolated within different scientific contexts with various theoretical and methodological approaches. Therefore, this anthology is an attempt to combine the perspectives of the media studies, the game studies and the communication studies as well as to present their findings.

“Die Herausgeber formulieren […] das Ziel einer möglichst umfassenden Bestandsaufnahme von Themen der Digital Game Studies und dieser Absicht trägt der Band durchaus Rechnung. In Anbetracht der Komplexität des Themenfeldes und der sich daraus ergebenden interdisziplinären Relevanz ist dies den Herausgebern auch mehr als gelungen.”
Jens Holze in open_in_new MEDIENwissenschaft, Rezensionen | Reviews 32 (1) (2015)